Creating Community and Collaboration Online: How to be a Distance Instructor without Becoming a Distant Instructor

Instructors, even good instructors, many times turn an online course into a correspondence course, a different model, by not requiring and leading in discussions, encouraging email and other forms of contact and collaboration. Distance instructors, who are not active in courses, building rapport wit...

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Published inJournal of hospitality & tourism education Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 26 - 31
Main Authors Barrow-Britton, David, Geddie, Morgan W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2004
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Summary:Instructors, even good instructors, many times turn an online course into a correspondence course, a different model, by not requiring and leading in discussions, encouraging email and other forms of contact and collaboration. Distance instructors, who are not active in courses, building rapport with students, become distant instructors. This paper explores how a positive school culture can become a process of cooperation between designers, instructors and administrators, working together to find way of creating norms and interactions that support learning activity.
ISSN:1096-3758
2325-6540
DOI:10.1080/10963758.2004.10696798