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Thursday, June 05, 2003
Streaming Media in Higher Education: Possibilities and Pitfalls - Brian Klass, Syllabus
You have to admit: streaming media is sexy. The immediacy of the moving image and the impact of the human voice is powerful. Streaming media can be richly communicative, tapping in to our profound ability to learn from sensory information. Humans are social animals, and we gain much of our initial understanding of others through our visual and auditory capacities. In the realm of online education, it is important to tap these abilities even across the distances that separate participants. Seeing other participants, or hearing their voices, provides a presence and potency that text alone cannot match.
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