Critical Thinking
The distance learning environment creates a multitude of challenges that students or instructors do not have to deal with in a brick and mortar classroom. One controversial topic may be that people cannot express their emotions effectively online. Online environments are also complicated to have interactions and establish a presence. Is this really the case though? Is it challenging to show emotion online or have a presence; however, it is not impossible. These topics will be discussed in the following.
Showing Emotion Online
Emotion has a major role that it plays in the learning environment (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell, 2012). Educational psychologists believe the motivation, achievements, and the overall educational performance has a direct correlation to the human emotion (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell, 2012). That statement alone reflects the significant role that emotion plays in education. There is a major need for human emotion to be displayed in the educational environment and it really does not matter whether it is a brick and mortar class or an online learning environment; emotion must and in fact does play a role.
Our emotions are evident through the work that is submitted and discussions in which students and instructors have with one another. For example, positive emotions can lead to positive results on papers or tests; negative emotions can do just the opposite prompting negative results (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell, 2012). Learning outcomes are a direct result of student’s emotions so instructors and students alike can indeed see the emotion in each other in an online learning environment. In many online institutions, one of the topics discussed is the tone employed when writing in...
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... failure for the students and fatal damage to the institution’s reputation. To sum it all up, yes, these three topics are entirely possible and must be utilized in the online learning environment
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