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Online Debate: A Case Study Combining Traditional Strategy and Online Technology - Shawn M. Love, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning

Instructional Designers are constantly faced with new challenges. In a volatile technological environment, online resources seem to lead instructional designers into unknown territory. Often, instructors will attempt to merge online media and instruction in an effort to accomplish a single task. However, instructors must consider the resources they use and the strategy they employ before attempting to combine traditional strategies with online technologies. Merging a traditional debate format in synchronous and asynchronous online environments demonstrate the challenges of merging the traditional with the non-traditional. In this article, an online debate is examined in terms of limited communication methods and suggestions are provided for designing an online debate.

  posted by Ray at 11/02/2004 08:17:00 AM permanent item link   

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