Today I'm pleased to present four items from a particularly strong issue of The Technology Source. This first article looks at the need for and techniques for creating immediacy in an online classroom. Of most interest is the description of what the author calls a "unibrowser" - a four panel website allowing for streaming video, slide presentation and interaction. The idea "was to duplicate what a "real" instructor does to motivate and orient a student." The author also raises the interesting question of whether it would also be useful to create immediacy by giving the computer a personality. It seems to me that it could be, but care should be taken not to give the computer a personality which (like the Microsoft paperclip) everybody hates.
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