Re: Increasing Interactions in Internet Courses

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Subject: Re: Increasing Interactions in Internet Courses
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Mon 06 Dec 1999 - 06:01:18 MET 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:01:18 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Increasing Interactions in Internet Courses

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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, William Klemm wrote:

> In my Internet course, I assign readings that each student has to
> answer and send me an e-mail of their answers, whereupon I send them
> an e-mail showing how I would have answered the questions.

I think that interactions that you want is about discovering how things
are. However, it seems to me that in your approach there is a different
need built in, one that in fact prevents such curiosity driven
interactions.
The need for covering a reading list and a need for answering questions
about these texts seem to indictae that there is an agenda behind teh
selections you make and the learners' task is not about discovering teh
world but discovering teh agenda so that they can present the problems and
solutions in a way that somehow is guided (and hence maye skewed) by your
selections.

So maybe by changing the course away from covering readings and answering
questions, some interaction patterns may change too. One way is of course
to ask students about what is it that they want to know at the end of the
course and give them the opportunity to negotiate their own paths through
the goals as they undertsand them. Required thus may be a step away from
content as the guarantee of knowledge and a step toward methodology of
negotiation of the content through goal oriented undertakings. In other
words, let them find the content of the course by themselves.

Ania Lian

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