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Thursday, June 20, 2002
http://ccenter.uoregon.edu/conferences/necc2002/program/presenter_rp_pdfs/bellon.pdf Best Practices in Cyberspace: Motivating the Online Learner Toni Bellon and Richard Oates, North Georgia College & State University Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe what we have learned about motivating online learners. Online instruction has presented teachers with new methods of instruction. At the same time, online instruction has the potential to depersonalize the teacher-student relationship and impede the teacher’s ability to understand their students. This study attempts to begin translating the traditional classroom knowledge into “best practice” for the online environment. Over the past three years we collected evidence of personality types from students taking an online course. During the same years, students completed surveys concerning their preferences for a variety of course components. The results of this study suggest that student personalities do play a part in motivating the online learner. The study also suggests general ideas about each personality types’ preferred instructional modes and provides suggestions for components to include within an online course....
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