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Eaton, Cynthia – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
In an online class, students need instruction, incentive, and structure to ensure substantive levels of interaction and participation. This article provides tips that can keep online students fully engaged with one another, so that no one feels as though they are in "a classroom of one."
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Communication Skills
Gilroy, Marilyn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
True global enlightenment. That's how YouTubeEDU is being promoted by company officials who have announced the launch of a YouTube section devoted to academic content. Calling the new site "a free, self-organizing, democratic website containing all the world's knowledge," YouTubeEDU promises an environment in which "any qualified teacher can…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marketing, Social Networks, Internet
Bugeja, Michael – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
In this essay, the author describes the difficulties email has introduced to the academic world, from monopolizing faculty's down time to adding a new dimension to interpersonal problems. He discusses the "withdrawal" symptoms he felt when he decided to go without email during a family vacation, and his realization, upon examining the emails sent…
Descriptors: Vacations, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Personal Narratives