I am wondering more about what we take for granted as we consider this transition, about both the face-to-face class and the online class. We assume that we will use discussion forum as a major means of communication in online classes. We use them in our f2f class, and they translate to online (I mean, they're even called the same thing). But, now I am thinking about those discussions I have in my f2f class. I don't really want some of them to translate. I take discussions too much for granted in f2f. They often don't work.
So, maybe there's actually MORE control in an online course? You won't have to translate those conversations? Or are those conversations that you would never translate publicly where the course really gets its life and reality? That's a really interesting issue.
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