Online Courses
Given potential issues, how do you design an online course that fosters equitable, ethical, and legal use of technology by learners?
Online courses, given that they lack the face-to-face class discussion component of 'real life' or conventional classroom courses must contain some forum whereby individuals and instructors may interact in a common and equitable environment. The meeting place of instruction often takes the form of online chat rooms, the use of blackboard technology, or simply communication via email between the instructor and various students. The medium depends upon the resources of the online university and the nature of the course. And as the medium and content of the courses offered online changes, so do the ethnical concerns involved on the part of the instructor of such courses.
First and foremost, in an online course environment, it is important that the instructor not have privileged access to only a few learners, depending on the capabilities of the technology those students possess. For instance, the instructor must strive to be equally attentive in responding to students during an online chat session or to blackboard inquiring people, even if some students may have flashier or speedier fonts and designs in their avatars and designs of messages. Content rather than the appearance of the student, even if the student's 'appearance' is on paper, must be the means of awarding a grade, and the content of the assignment rather than the appearance onscreen and online is what is important. Nor should students be penalized for ungrammatical emails on occasion, if those emails are not technically part of the grading criteria for the course.
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