These tips for student communication in e-learning environments seem useful. Perhaps you could use these in your online classes. The web site is www.geteducated.com that has a great deal of information concerning all aspects of online learning.
By the way, since this area of education is now firmly established, isn't it time for one term to be settled on? Distance/online/e-learning are the most common terms. For me, "distance" doesn't work so well because some of these courses are offered in the same city where the students live. Using "e" is also not quite right. Online is probably the best bet as it sounds better with the various uses: online university, online education, online teaching, online learning, etc. "Computer," "digital," and similar terms are not specific enough. What do you think?
http://www.geteducated.com/elearning-education-blog/improve-your-elearning-communication-skills-with-these-5-tips/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Blog&utm_campaign=Weekly%2BNewsletter&utm_source=November+11%2C+2014+Weekly+-+Boost+Your+E-Learning+Skills&utm_campaign=11.11.2014+Newsletter&utm_medium=email
I must have chosen "online" for my preference well because the topics tags generated by RG are all "online" but I'll add the others.
Unfortunately, my country (RO) has been blacklisted, I have no idea why. On a site for open, online education... how strange can this be. On the other hand, MOOC's are working well and are quite popular. Other open platforms also.
Is this site dedicated to a complementarity of the off-line universities? in this case, I can understand the closed policy, but the "blacklisted" term should be reconsidered, I think.
Adrian, do you mean you could not access the site www.geteducated.com? That is really strange. It does not have a closed policy. It is free and open. No payment, no subscription required. Did you copy and paste or type the address in your browser bar? If you typed it maybe you typed a letter wrong. It's a legit site; I go there often. I'm not affiliated with the web site in any way.
Yes, this is what I mean. I know you don't need a "print screen" to beleave me I received this message:
"403: Access Forbidden
Your country (RO) has been blacklisted."
I also found it strange and this is why I posted this here. I copy and paste and I don't have a normal, wrong address message, but a blacklist warning. It is displayed based on IP detection, as usual. I will not go further with the comments about this. I am not saying you are affiliated to anything, you just connect from that continent.
I tested an anonymous connection and it worked... strange and, again, I will not go further with the details. I will not access it, however, in these conditions.
I am also not saying that your post is not useful, let's be clear. It only does not cover all situations, but this is not your fault.
Dear Colleagues,
It looks like a nice blog. There are many blogs like this around these days; we are very fortunate. If anyone is having technical problems with someone's web site, instead you can also just go to their social media profiles: Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Google+. So, for this particular one, I have given you those links below. Thanks John for sharing.
Emre
Dr. Erturk
https://twitter.com/geteducated
http://get-educated.tumblr.com/
https://plus.google.com/+GetEducated/posts
https://www.facebook.com/geteducatedcom
Dear Emre, thank you so much for taking the time to post those links. I hope they will be helpful to colleagues interested in this topic. I receive the site's newsletter once a week and usually find something of interest in it.
Adrian, again I'm sorry you had so much trouble with the site. I hope colleague Emre's links will help.
Thank you, Emre, for sharing the links. However, I doubt a micro-blogging system can substitute the contents (some articles being self-referencies, pointing to the main site and with the site being more than just a blog). This is, anyway, a dead end as I see it from here, I was just drawing attention.
John, thanks again and don't worry, I can work it out from other sources.
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