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Thursday, November 25, 2004
Online Learning Teams: Indispensable Interaction - Muhammad K. Betz, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
In a learning-centered educational environment (Glatthorn, 2000) the curricula, courses, and lessons are structured to optimize learning as the top priority of educational enterprise. In the educational environment commonly established for the milieu of online courses, an indispensable variable for ensuring optimal learning is that of interaction (Betz, 2002). It is a given that online courses usually include either synchronous or asynchronous requirements for student participation with the intention of creating student interaction. In the popular Blackboard system for hosting courses, for example, there is a special section called, Discussion Board, that allows instructors or students to post threaded messages to which other students reply.
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