Learning in Real Time
Synchronous Teaching and Learning Online
Chapter One
Learning, Live Online
With mounting experience in the online environment, an increasing
number of learning professionals are now ready to find
ways to add life, and the magic of real-time interaction, back into the
learning process. In the vast movement to transition campus-based
experiences to the online realm, the immediacy and value of live interaction
have often been sacrificed to a perception that the Web is no
place for anything that is not "anytime, anywhere." Though "anytime"
or asynchronous modes of communication have been an empowering
factor in allowing learners to transcend traditional limits of place
and time, not every learning objective or need can be met in the absence
of real-time human interaction.
Situations that call for proximity to others, even figuratively, are found all across
the learning continuum from collaboration to skills development to community-building
or just-in-time support. Learning environments that have shied away from
any form of real-tim ... read full excerpt from Learning in Real Time: Synchronous Teaching and Learning Online (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL) #26) ebook
