he researchers studied the development of an online community in a part-time Masters degree consisting of an initial face-to-face ‘boot camp’ followed by study via asynchronous and synchronous communication. Interviews with students revealed that the face-to-face period helped give a clear sense of others who were part of the community. One student commented:
This is kind of what happened to us. We had face to face and developed connections, and will now be moving to online.
In spite of the lack of nonverbal expression, faculty found that their relationship with the students online was more intimate, more connected. (p. 179
My guess is that people arent as intimidated to voice their opinions or questions over a keyboard, whereas in class it may be slightly scary for shy people
Online communication offers increased opportunities for dialogue and collaborative activities, and overcomes limitations due to distance and time.
I agree with the distance and time stance, but I also disagree as distance is usually negligible due to the fact that most learning takes place in schools where everyone is together
oncluded that social presence in online learning communities can be enhanced by changes to the design and use of communication systems, together with attention to styles of communication within these environments.
Can't believe they needed a research study to make this conclusion; seems very intuitive
Social presence relates to the needfor users to feel connected with each other and to perceive each other as real people
Exactly what my biggest concern about Zoom would be
A project of this nature would involve the identification, compilation and digitization of the existing data followed by analysis to generate answers to the many questions identified in this paper and others of interest to historians, epidemiologists and the healt
I guess the general stance is a need for someone to take everything from every country and combine it. I'm not sure why this author got halfway there and then stopped, but this article is definitely interesting read as I knew nothing about the spanish influenza until February 2020.
We know little about these impacts, yet social distancing, of which both of the above phenomena are examples, has been proposed as a method of halting the spread of epidemics such as influenza
Interesting many of the same ideas that are happening today
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Why would they add an exclamation point when talking about fatalities
He also identifies the origin to be the United States in March 1918, though he does not accept as fact that its precise origin was in Kansas. From focal points in the Midwest and southeast of the country, “infection spread outwards and then eastwards as young Americans were drawn to the army and naval training establishments of
Would have guessed that it started in Spain
having three distinct waves
Is this something we should be concerned about?
e toll could have reached as much as 100 million, and it not clear that we will ever know for sure how many people fell victim to the disease
Kind of reminds me what is going on right now in China. I have read articles that speculate that the death toll is far higher in China than they are actually reporting.
cause such a synthesis has not been conducted using t
I don't really respect this last sentence. It is easy to suggest opportunities for future research, but it is more difficult to do them. If the author wishes them to be done so bad, and is even willing to write a paper about it, why not do the research itself.
I'm astonished I had never heard about the spanish flu until the coronavirus outbreak. This is an insane death toll and I don't think it was ever even taught in one of my history classes