Any tool which allows and promotes communication between participants in an online educational environment, e.g. e-mail, forum, bulletin board, chat, blog, wiki, video conference.
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Building Interaction in Adults' Online Courses: A Case Study on Training E-Educators of Adults
Maria Pavlis-Korres (General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning, Greece & Hellenic Open University, Greece) and Piera Leftheriotou (General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning, Greece & Hellenic Open University, Greece)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9582-5.ch008
Abstract
Integrating the principles of adult education in online environment -an environment which empowers the engagement of learners and their active participation, promotes interaction and immediacy between educator and learners, as well as between learners themselves, and improves learning outcomes- is a very important task. In this task the role of the educator is crucially important and simultaneously very complicated and demanding, as the integration of adult education principles in an online environment is not an easy issue and forms a big challenge for each online educator of adults. This chapter focuses on building interaction in adults' online courses by integrating the principles of adult education in an online environment, and presents one case study on training e-educators of adults. This case study concerns a one-month intensive seminar addressed to e-educators who teach adult courses, demonstrating that online interaction is both possible and effective by integrating the adult education principles in online educational environment.