What Is Loss Of Online Class
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Social Media attraction
The most obvious loss in the online environment is that students and professors are physically and (usually) temporally disconnected. In the world of online teaching there is much talk about synchronous and asynchronous classrooms. The former is a class where instructor and students are together online simultaneously and can interact in "real time." The latter is one where the instructor posts information (lectures, films, exercises, readings, and so forth) at one time and the student accesses the class and posts comments and interactions at different times. Regardless of the design associated with the online experience, the interpersonal relationship is inherently different when students and teachers are not actually together in the same place. After all, there is something personal about sitting face to face with a student, determining by conversation or body language, what the student does or does not understand. It is useful to stand in front of a classroom or sit in a seminar and talk, discuss, explore, read facial expression, sometimes argue and often laugh together. Even in the best online classroom this just isn't possible.
However, this is similar to the situation any writer or journalist faces. Writers cannot see or know reader reaction. But publishing survives, both in print and online, because editors and designers know how to anticipate problems and address them in the editorial and publication process. This is what has to be done in the development of online classes. Course designers must foster a solidly productive forum where students and teachers can vigorously interact. In fact, the experience of some professors at Butler University, where I teach, has been that student conversations online are more thoughtful and nuanced than they are in the traditional classroom. Maybe this is because students working online have more time to think about what they want to say than they do in a classroom interaction; or perhaps timid students feel freer to write out their ideas than to voice them publicly. So, while there are losses associated with the online model-they need not amount to a total loss.