Module 2

Blog Module 2

Collaborative interaction.

With the increasing use of the internet among educators and researchers, collaborating has evolved into becoming an increasing important tool. Interacting with others using the internet has brought up new challenges. It use to be that interaction was done in person or with the telephone. It was rare to interact with other people over great distances. Collaborative interaction has evolved to the point that the people who are working together have to carefully think about what the main project goal is going to be and how they are going to respond and do their part in the project. With the advent of e-mail, chat rooms and Skype interacting with others over great distances is becoming more and more common. Collaborative interaction is becoming more and more successful. Ideas are being shared with others of different backgrounds allowing everyone to build their own skills off of others from all over.

Online tools that allow interaction between others are chat rooms, discussion boards. Blogs allow people to communicate their ideas between other quicker and provide feedback as well. Skype is another tool that allows people to communicate through the use of the computer and allows for instant discussion back and forth between the groups.

References:
Palloff R. M, & Pratt. K. (2005)Collaborating online Jossey Bass. San Francsico, CA.

Module 1

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I do feel with all four of the researchers about distance education. Moller, Huett, Foshey, and Coleman all understand how distance education is going to happen and it will be up to the society to make sure that they adapt to the needs of distance education. It is just the process of how the distance education is going to happen. In today’s society, it is very common that people do not have the resources to attend educational institutions as it has been traditionally. With the technology that has came out it is key to remember how people are learning and how they can learn. While considering how they can learn, do the student need to be at the physical classroom or can they learn from their own home and on their own time.

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