Here are my questions for this week. I think the most challenging thing when discussing online collaboration is the way that a text-based medium influences the communication. Non-verbals are not conveyed well over a text-based medium and I wonder then how much of communication is lost because of not having non-verbals.
1. How does a text-only medium affect the way messages are sent and received? Does the lack of non-verbals cause interference or message breakdown? If so, How can we overcome that breakdown in communication?
2. According to Johnson & Johnson, there are five conditions for cooperative learning. One of the five conditions is “considerable face-to-face interaction.” How does the removal of face-to-face interactions in an online environment affect the conditions for cooperative learning? Is the replacement of a text-only medium an adequate replacement or should we replace it with a more robust system?
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