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What is Direct Messaging

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Handbook of Research on Barriers for Teaching 21st-Century Competencies and the Impact of Digitalization
A direct message, also abbreviated as a “DM” is a way to chat with other individuals privately. Most often on social media platforms and other platforms where individuals communicate with one another through typed messages.
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Engaging Graduate Students During a Pandemic: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration in Emergency Remote Learning
Alyssa S. Cortes Kennedy (University of the Incarnate Word, USA) and Sandra L. Guzman Foster (University of the Incarnate Word, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6967-2.ch017
Abstract
This chapter explores the application of multiple technology-driven learning platforms to engage graduate-level students in emergency remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors stress the importance of integrating creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking while teaching and learning at the graduate level. Multiple platforms, technology, and other tools of engagement created a plethora of opportunities for critical thinking, use of various communication styles, various learning styles, and the creative collaboration of students to work together without being together physically in the standard brick and mortar classroom.
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