Live elearning

Via the Elluminate Newletter, this article “Professors help students virtually” from USA Today describes some American uni/ college lecturers practices of keeping virtual office hours. I found the conversation in the comments nearly as interesting though – for those who have the luxury of being on campus, and available when their lecturers are, yes face-to-face is pretty good, but the comments showed a lack of understanding about the amazing functionality available through virtual classroom tools. The notion of off-campus students didn’t come up either. A lot of our students aren’t on-campus a great deal so these tools are simply brilliant. One of my teams uses this type of technology for fortnightly team meetings – and now I can’t imagine operating statewide without it!

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