Sunday, November 4, 2007

The online classroom is more than just learning

For the any classroom to be successful it is a necessary element to communicate to each other and to the teachers. In traditional classrooms for the most part a dialogue needs to take place for learning and success. In the online classroom this dialogue takes place through writing. Because we as students selected an online class we all put ourselves at the mercy of the keyboard and now need to use the keyboard to do our writings. This writing promotes success and learning within then class. The online classroom has many obvious good aspects which we all know such as freedom to do work when we have time and freedom to be anywhere in the world that has access to a computer and still be involved in the class. Another not so obvious aspect is that the online classroom really makes us write a lot more than we otherwise would normally write. All of our assignments are done through writing, from this blog and class discussion to papers. Because of this writing aspect we are going to learn more from the class than just the subject but we are continually refining our writing skills which will in turn help us in our future.

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