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"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."

Critical Thinking in Asynchronous Discussion

A compilation of links of the theme of connectivism

George Siemens

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."

Hillman et al (1994) 4th kind of interaction [follow up to Moore 1989)

Zydney et al. Creating a community of inquiry in online environments: An exploratory study on the effect of a protocol on interactions within asynchronous discussions"

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

Moore, (1989) Three Types of Interaction

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