Thoughts About Virtual Education
This blog post supports the needs for establishing online communities and the necessary contracts for their success. These contracts take the form of a set of expectations, or guidelines, that allow all participants to take part in a safe and comfortable virtual environment. This post also gives an example for a set of rules to govern an online learning community and also some of the qualities of a skilled (successful) online classroom leader/facilitator.
Palloff and Pratt, as well as Martin-Kniep, state that an effective leader or facilitator will establish a set of rules or guidelines early on in the formation of the learning community. This will help govern discussion and promote growth/learning within the community. The characteristics that are stated in this blog post fall very much in-line with the characteristics of effective leadership that I have discussed in recent posts for our own learning community. This was the main aspect that caught my attention when searching for a good resource to share.
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