Posts Tagged ‘instant messaging’
September 30 - Reaching Online Students with Learning Disabilities
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Students with disabilities are drawn to online courses for many of the same reasons as everyone else, but it’s often the anonymity that makes learning online particularly attractive to someone who’s spent his or her life trying to mask a disability. For online instructors, this can present new issues. After all, it’s hard enough distinguishing
August 11 - Communicating with Students: IM or Email?
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Despite numerous studies that show that students prefer instant messaging to email, initiating communication with students via IM is not necessarily the best way to go, according to the editors of The Edutech Report.
February 18 - Nine Strategies for Using IM in Your Online Course
By: Rob Kelly in Asynchronous Learning and Trends, Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Instant messaging can be an effective online learning tool that can build community and foster collaborative learning. The following are some suggestions from Debby Kilburn, computer science professor at Cero Coso Community College, for making the most of this tool.
