eLearning: Creating an Academic Culture in Hyperspace
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 2005 in Phoenix, AZ, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-55-6
Abstract
Traditional face-to-face classroom instruction presents the same environmental conditions for all learners and the instructor. However, the actual physical environment that students are in at the time that they interact in the eLearning environment involves another physical location. Although the discussions, chats, and interactions manifest themselves in the eLearning environment, the learners often participate from overtly heterogeneous physical environments (living room, office, school, library, etc.) that support different affects and therefore demand different levels of protocol. Learners might be engaging in a "learning activity" at the same time that other events are occurring in their geographic "classroom" location. These events, while obviously a distraction for the learner who is interacting in that physical space, can also transgress into the virtual classroom. Instructional designers need to accommodate this challenge by providing structure and options within the eLearning environment.
Citation
Downs, E. & Jenkins, S.J. (2005). eLearning: Creating an Academic Culture in Hyperspace. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, I. Gibson, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2005--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 377-379). Phoenix, AZ, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/19017.
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