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Moore, (1989) Three Types of Interaction

Nackerud & Scalette "This chapter discusses the use of blogs in higher education, including how students and instructors use blogs, the value of blogs in this setting, and privacy and security implications. The chapter also features an examination of the University of Minnesota's UThink blogging system."

Garrison et al Critical Inquiry in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education

Pifarre et al. Using a blog to create and support a Community of Inquiry in Secondary Education

Steve Wheeler BLog

Cross linking to my other group with resource links on Blended/Hybrid Course Design

"rapport is necessary in DE because of the absence of face-to-face communication. Challenges to building rapport relate to the geographic dispersion of students, the asynchronous nature of DE, teacher workload, limits of the software, teachers and students not seeing the need for rapport, and DE traditions. We identified six categories of rapport-building in DE as follows: Recognizing the person/individual; Supporting and monitoring; Availability, accessibility, and responsiveness; Non text-based interactions; Tone of interactions; Non-academic conversation/interactions."

"An LTA is an activity or application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and incrementally low-cost in time, money, and stress."

My review of this article Realigning HIgher Education for the 21st Century Learner through Multi-Access Learning. http://azbtechtrails.blogspot.com/2013/09/multi-access-learning-framework.html