The Teaching Voice on the Learning Platform: Seeking Classroom Climates within a Virtual Learning Environment

Autor/inn/en	Crook, Charles; Cluley, Robert
Titel	The Teaching Voice on the Learning Platform: Seeking Classroom Climates within a Virtual Learning Environment
Quelle	In: Learning, Media and Technology, 34 (2009) 3, S.199-213 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-9884
Schlagwörter	Computer Assisted Instruction; Educational Practices; College Faculty; Web Sites; College Instruction; Social Networks; Classroom Environment; Social Environment; College Students; Teaching Styles; Foreign Countries; Educational Technology; Electronic Learning; Technology Integration; Computer Mediated Communication; Virtual Classrooms; Language Styles; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Bildungspraxis; Fakultät; Web-Design; Hochschullehre; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Soziales Umfeld; Collegestudent; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil; Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Computerkonferenz; Sprachstil; Großbritannien
Abstract	University staff are now encouraged to supplement their classroom activity with computer-based tools and resources accessible through virtual learning environments (VLEs). Meanwhile, university students increasingly make recreational use of computer networks in the form of various social software applications. This paper explores tensions of presentation and communication between these two contexts. Through analysing a large number of course websites, the teaching voice in VLEs is shown to be in a very different register than the voice of communication in social networking environments. Yet isolated examples demonstrate that learning platforms can support materials conveying a similar kind of conviviality. It is suggested that the educational practice of university teachers could move closer to this communicative style and reasons are considered as to why this has not yet happened. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10