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Friday, July 04, 2003
Online Learning Identities: Who are we on-line? - Rick Shearer, Distance-Educator.com
Who are we on-line? And is our identity on-line important? These are questions many of us may not consider as we negotiate our way through the electronic world of e-mail, on-line chats, and listserves. It is, however, interesting to consider the possibility of individuals escaping the constraints of socially acceptable norms and taking on completely new personas in the faceless on-line world. In news over the past 5 - 10 years we have witnessed stories of social deviants who have taken on roles of nurturing individuals in order to lure youth into misdirected acts. But do we even consider individuals may take on different personas in on-line learning environments?
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