A dialogic approach to online facilitation

Jennie Swann; Jennie Swann

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2010)

Social construction of understanding has long been a significant underlying principle of learning and teaching, and while there are many models for the design of online activities to promote this, there are considerably fewer models for the...

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Caring dialogue: A step toward realising the dream of online learning communities

Jennie Swann; Peter Albion

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 854–864

Online educators dream of facilitating interpersonal interactions equivalent to those in face -to-face classrooms as an important factor for promoting learning in online classes. Many current university students are comfortable with online networks...