In one of my online classes, a few of us have been having a sidebar discussion on the human interaction that we\u00a0feel as "missing" in an online learning environment.\u00a0 We've had some great back and forth "conversations" in the asynchronous discussion forum that began when a\u00a0fellow online classmate made the statement, "I can't help but think someday no one will attend class and there will be no 'campus'." This was followed by a\u00a0thread of posts\u00a0noting the human interaction that some feel can't\u00a0truly be replicated in an online environment.\u00a0 Here is a partial list of of missed interactions\u00a0noted by members of my class:<\/p>\n
I pointed back to my "Being Spaces" posts from back in June<\/a> which prompted a referral to the book The Ape in the Corner Office: Understanding the Workplace Beast in All of Us<\/a>. So, even for us distance students who are putting our hearts, minds and hard earned tuition dollars\u00a0into this new learning environment, there is still a longing for what I often\u00a0refer to as "the water cooler".\u00a0\u00a0This theme will be part of a free webcast<\/span> today hosted by the folks at Innovate<\/a>\u00a0 with\u00a0Robert Sanders, the author of\u00a0"The 'Imponderable Bloom': Reconsidering the Role of Technology in Education"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(see details below).\u00a0 In the article, Sanders notes:<\/p>\n " … my students are apprehensive of technologically mediated interaction, arguing that communication and collaboration in an online learning environment is simply not the same as in a F2F environment. While they do not necessarily expect the experience to be the same, they are frustrated by the disconnect they sense between themselves and the other students. My students realize that what they see and hear in an online world is something like a real classroom, but it is not the same as a physical classroom space. Virtually being there is not the same as physically being there. As a result, these students sense a void in what could otherwise be a rich learning environment."<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Catch the webcast<\/span> today at:<\/p>\n The \u201cImponderable Bloom\u201d: Reconsidering the Role of Technology in Education In one of my online classes, a few of us have been having a sidebar discussion on the human interaction that we\u00a0feel as "missing" in an online learning environment.\u00a0 We've had some great back and forth "conversations" in the asynchronous discussion forum that began when a\u00a0fellow online classmate made the statement, "I can't help but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,247,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-online-learning-2","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Webcast<\/span>: September 11th, 2:00pm ET<\/a>
Author: Robert Sanders Moderator: Liz Hawthorne<\/strong>
complete article…<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"