{"id":6054,"date":"2004-04-03T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/03\/piping-up-down\/"},"modified":"2004-04-03T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T15:15:39","slug":"piping-up-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/03\/piping-up-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Piping Up, Down Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s <i>narrowly<\/i> analogous to my experience developing and teaching online courses since the fall of &#8217;01, but the technophilic pied piper of computer-mediated distance ed&#8211;who<br \/>\nfluted for distance initiatives through glowing positivisms&#8211;in the late 90&#8217;s, has yielded to<br \/>\na symphony of vastly more critical, responsible pedagogies, mindful of the barbs<br \/>\ndescribed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmonday.dk\/issues\/issue4_12\/hara\/#h8\" >Hara<br \/>\nand Kling&#8217;s article<\/a>.&nbsp; Computer-mediated distance ed programs have grown<br \/>\nup in the five years since the article was published; they&#8217;ve been (and continue<br \/>\nto be) shaped by theoretical currents in technology and media, by laborious,<br \/>\nongoing revisions guided by new experiences and best practices.&nbsp; They<br \/>\ncontinue to take seriously the frustrations expressed by students&#8211;frustrations<br \/>\nabout tech speed, about confusing explanations of assignments, about feedback<br \/>\ntime and engagement.&nbsp; And attrition rates continue to be a question&#8211;or,<br \/>\nperhaps, only part of a broader question about what&#8217;s bound up in the pursuit of<br \/>\nexcellence, the sort of excellence that lives on tireless exertion, dialectic<br \/>\nreflection and conversation on ways to make the programs better.&nbsp; A recent<br \/>\nfaculty survey where I teach asked instructors, &quot;why do students withdraw<br \/>\nfrom your online courses?&quot;&nbsp; My responses were speculative; the knowledgeable<br \/>\nanswers are harder to produce than a summary of the rants and rumblings of<br \/>\nstudents who endured the term of study then posted wry comments on the<br \/>\ninstructor evaluation form.&nbsp; So many of our distance learning students are<br \/>\nfull-time military who work and travel, who have families and heaps of other commitments;<br \/>\nthey tend to be realistic about their workloads and planned <a class=\"footnote\" onmouseover=\"window.status=' '; return true\" href=\"javascript:alert('temporary duty or temporary duty yonder');\" title=\"What?\">TDY<\/a> excursions, and,<br \/>\nwhen confronted with an unusually rigorous stint in composition or the<br \/>\nintroductory humanities survey, I think many students opt out because the<br \/>\npromises made in the syllabus are clear&#8211;perhaps daunting.&nbsp; By what other<br \/>\nterms can eight-week online course work?<\/p>\n<p>I brought this back to my blog rather than commenting over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chlt.org\/~gwilliams\/teaching\/archives\/000816.php\" > Palimpsest<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jerz.setonhill.edu\/weblog\/permalink.jsp?id=2324\" ><br \/>\nDennis Jerz&#8217;s Literacy Weblog<\/a> because I often get the feeling that I have my head in the<br \/>\nsand about ways that computer-mediated distance education is <i>done<\/i> at other<br \/>\ninstitutions.&nbsp; I honestly don&#8217;t know much about how it works<br \/>\nelsewhere.&nbsp; When the subject of computer-mediated distance learning comes<br \/>\nup, I falter, succumb to my doubts about all that I don&#8217;t know about how it&#8217;s<br \/>\nhandled anywhere else. (are you on Blackboad? WebCT? VCampus? hybrid or mixed-mode?<br \/>\nmeeting in person occasionally or always via computer? supplemented by video or<br \/>\nlive chat? are your face-to-face curricula migrated for online delivery for<br \/>\noutcomes comparisons? vice versa?&nbsp; are faculty who teach online also<br \/>\nrequired to teach on in bricks-n-mortar spaces? must instructors encode (HTML<br \/>\nthe content) their own courses? are the courses peer reviewed? how is faculty<br \/>\ntraining and mentoring handled?).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given half a thought to starting a blog for distance ed instructors in<br \/>\ncomp\/rhet, including the 15 or so instructors who teach the classes I&#8217;m familiar<br \/>\nwith.&nbsp; And perhaps it would work better if it was wide open to instructors<br \/>\nfrom various institutions, except that cross-talk can be tougher to negotiate<br \/>\nwhen we set out from considerably inconstant curricular and ideological frames.&nbsp; But to the extent<br \/>\ninstructors are geographically spread out; I wonder how widely they are<br \/>\npedagogically spread out, too&#8211;to what degree my sense of best practices jibes<br \/>\nwith my peers&#8217; understandings of best practices in computer-mediated distance<br \/>\ned (esp. as it ties to essayism, close reading, discourse analysis).&nbsp; What better way to reconcile it than by a blog&#8211;a blog for overlaps in computer mediated distance ed and on-site ed folded together under tech\/comp\/rhet. 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