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Name: CREATING MEANINGFUL ONLINE DISCUSSIONS
ID: m14135
Language: English (en)
Summary: As educators in higher education, we face many challenges, but probably none like that of teaching online. While institutions of higher education have enjoyed a long history of traditional teaching and learning, the realities of providing an environment tailored to the needs and interests of today’s adult learners is a very real and timely issue. Many institutions have pursued online instruction as a means of competing in today’s marketplace, while addressing the unique needs of the current generation of degree-seeking adults who have family, community, and work commitments – in other words, whose time is highly structured and virtually controlled by a wide variety of factors. Thus, Web-supported instruction is becoming much more commonplace in colleges and universities (Lindner, Dooley & Murphy, 2001). Web-based courses are being used increasingly by instructors to optimize the delivery of instruction and instructional materials. These include: Web pages, chat rooms, discussion groups, e-mail, animation, streaming video, etc.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: discussion, distance learning, educational administration, learning communities, online learning, technology leadership, weaving discussions
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Mary Harris-John (johnm@marshall.edu)
Copyright Holders: Mary Harris-John (johnm@marshall.edu)
Maintainers: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu), Mary Harris-John (johnm@marshall.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Nov 17, 2006 9:13 am US/Central
Last revision to module: Dec 6, 2006 11:49 am US/Central
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Version: 1.1 Dec 6, 2006 11:49 am US/Central by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
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