Updated 11/6/03
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Instructional Context or Activity
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Class-Room Based
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Web-Based
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Student Engagement in Course
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Presence in Class (seat-time)
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Access to text and other items on site (hits/duration
of linkage)
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Student Participation
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Level of Attention; Questions and Comments (instructor
observation of level of attention and frequency/quality of comments and
questions)
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Responses to instructor initiated questions or discussion
items (number, length and quality of
text-based responses)
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Accessibility to Learning Activity
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Restricted to specific times each week andcalendar
periods for terms of varying lengths
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24/7 access for terms of varying lengths
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Instructor/Student Interaction
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Restricted to class meetings and instructor office
hours
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24/7 access although “real” time response may be
restricted to certain periods
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Nature of Communications
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Restricted to instructor presentations in “real”
time and to text-based tests and papers
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Virtual text-based interchanges 24/7, including
ability to review and modify and to build on previous iterations
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Learning Environment
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Face-to-face dynamics impede some from participating,
allowing others to dominate; group-think likely
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Virtual environment allows full opportunity for
each individual to express views without duress
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Student/Instructor Knowledge/Awareness of Other
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Limited by need for instructor conveyance of information
to group and by class and office time and nature of classroom activity
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Richer by virtue of one-to-one nature of student
interaction with instructor
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Student/Student Interaction
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Normally unstructured and not required; limited
by lack of access outside of class
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Usually required and enabled easily by virtual linkages
among students
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Access to text-based Learning Resources
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Limited to suggestions by instructor orally or in
course materials and by time limitations on access to library
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Encouraged by 24/7 virtual (“click on this”) access
to webliographical or web-based materials
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Access to Multi Media
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Limited by equipment available for loan or installed
in classroom
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Potentially rich but limited by “connectivity”capacity
of university and student user
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Ability to “Read” Body Language and other “non-verbal”
Cues
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Limited only by number of individuals
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Requires ability to discern
nuances in use of language
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