<FontFamily><param>Century Gothic</param>Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:22:59 -0000 </color><FontFamily><param>Century Gothic</param>
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<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>> OK - good idea, although I was wary of info overload. The answer is
> 'stimulate and encourage an atmosphere of collaboration and knowledge
> sharing among diverse and distributed online students'.
</color>my view is that online chat isn't going to do that. in my experience online
chat has a novelty value, but isn't a great medium for satisfying
discussions - unless your students are particularly speedy touch typists.
chat is a nice add-on function to supplement an asynchronous discussion
forum, but i wouldn't expect it to promote the sharing of much 'knowledge'!<FontFamily><param>Century Gothic</param>
I have to agree with Emma here. We use the <bold>FirstClass</bold>
system to deliver a management couse on-line, which
includes a marketing module. We split the students into
several small groups of 5 or 6 and they communicate
asynchronously. They occasionally use the 'chat' facility but
after the initial novely has worn off they tend to revert to
the asynchonous method of communiation. It's much
quicker and unlike 'chat' it gives them thinking time.
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