Course Agenda

Day One. Defining and Redefining Community

• Redefining community in cyberspace
• The importance of a learning community
• Community in the electronic classroom
• Participation and desired outcomes in the electronic classroom

Day Two. What We Know About Electronic Learning

• Virtual versus human contact
• Time and group size
• Psychological and spiritual issues
• Administrative issues related to time and group size

Day Three. Making the Conversion to Cyberspace

• Effective teaching in the electronic classroom
• The role of the learner in the learning process
• Moving to specifics

Day Four. Promoting Collaborative Learning

• Dialogue as inquiry
• Formulating a shared goal for learning
• Negotiating guidelines
• Intergroup and other forms of collaboration

Day Five. Transformative Learning

• Encouraging reflection
• Self-reflection
• Learning about learning