As we begin to curate some of the gold in the book “Teaching Online, a Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice” by Claire Howell Major, we’ll have a sort of template for each post in the “series”. There’s a special category for this series, as well as a new category for the “Core DLE Elements” series.
The book contains many excerpts about one page in length, along with Major’s thoughts. We can find sections that appeal or intrigue and post them here, in whatever order, to both catalog and stimulate further discussion. Many excerpts are only the stepping off point for further exploration. To summarize, this series can be thought of as a sort of “updater of online learning today” DLE that we DIY, making it up as we go along.
This excerpt below was one of the first articles I noticed in Claire Majors well researched and written and curated book. The excerpt gets us thinking about the challenge to find the best way to interact with our fellow humans online. There’s a lot new about what being a person online looks like, feels like, can be understood as. It’s a human skill to learn to understand the culture we grow up in, which has previously involved our face to face personas, our on the phone personas, and our letter writing personas.
Today, our online personas are various and change according to the media and medium in use, but we are just in the first stages of group learning how they work as a culture. Those who learn this part of human interaction in the “age du cloud” best, will be the most successful in gathering eyeballs and ears to engage in learning activities.
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