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I have recently seen a few people complaining that they aren’t getting peer interaction in their newly-virtual university environments. Yeah, the online experience does not mirror the physical. In the physical, there is usually one or two peers that you hit it off with ... you might all meet in the campus library to study together (because the student center is too loud and h…
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I had one interesting experience I want to note: I took a couple of #Java courses at the community college level. During my master’s degree program, I was in a Java course completed online. I was in a group of six students, most of whom had not taken Java previously. Four students and I struggled with the assignment, with attempt after attempt that failed to meet objectives. …
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One thing I agree with is that however online education proceeds, videoconferencing is no substitute for face-to-face interaction.
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We had course videos that we were supposed to watch. I found that the videos that were not from actual in-class instruction were not very helpful. Either the instructor talking to a camera or generic animated “here are the principles behind relational databases” type videos added little.