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Voices in the Feminine - Female Voices Around the Web
Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations
If you are engaged with online learning and are confused by the terminology, you are not alone.
More universities are joining their efforts to meet the needs and financial demands of an increased content development in these onlin
What special considerations do practitioners need in order to host equitable, hospitable, synchronous hybrid video conversations, where some participants are together in a room while others join remotely? Presented are intentionally equitable hospitality practices of onsite and virtual facilitators (buddies) that have emerged from experiences in Virtually Connecting, a grassroots movement that holds conversations at education conferences that include remote participants who cannot attend due to financial, social, logistical, health, or other reasons.
Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic has driven a rapid shift to online learning at all Australian universities. This presents unique opportunities for both [...]
Sometimes, the most valuable thing we can offer our students is genuine care for them, their well-being, their happiness. Not just their grades. Not just their learning. But their whole selves. This article is inspired by a discussion with a friend who suggested that medical ethics should not be about
Learning experience design uses human-centered strategies and tools, like the empathy map to develop empathy for a target audience. Download and learn how to use one here.
“One cannot ask for a life, or two lives. One can only warrant the hope of an increasing potency in each man’s heart.”
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Remember?”
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“‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief.”
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.”
On the weight of the world and the weight of the sky.
“If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, would you understand?”
“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious.”
“We are all navigating an external world — but only through the prism of our own minds, our own subjective experience… The majesty of the universe is only ever conjured up in the mind.”…
This the first of a three-part series. You can read part two here. Amidst 2020’s pandemic, a great shift is taking place. [...]
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke briefly tonight in Anna Smith'
Inclusive teaching describes a range of teaching approaches that consider the many different needs, backgrounds, and ways of learning of all students. Knowin
It’s a great joy to me that, during these ‘challenging times’, many educators are exploring learning design ideas. And appreciating that providing successful, enjoyable, engaging pathway
“The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.”
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Abstract
This study examines the presence of transactional distance among students, the factors affecting it, as well as the way it influences the learning process of students in a blended distance learning setting in Greece. The present study involved 12 postgraduate students of the Hellenic Open University (HOU). A qualitative research was conducted, using information collected via individual semi-structured interviews. Content analysis of the gathered information provided evidence regarding the existence of student-student transactional distance for several reasons, such as geographical and relatively limited face to face interaction. The role of the tutor as well as of the course provider were also examined in this respect. Finally the study indicated that the existence of perceived transactional distance among the students has a negative effect on their learning process.