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Class Participation and the Whites of Their Eyes
Sally M. Johnstone

When students and faculty work together at a distance electronically there are some things that can happen that are practically impossible in a face-to-face classroom setting. Granted, there are things that can happen in a classroom that cannot happen electronically, such as full sensory exchanges, visual, aural, olfactory, etc. Some of those may be important, but I find it hard to understand arguments that they are critical to the teaching of new skills and information or to the assessment of a student's mastery of a subject....


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