Online learning can be impersonal, uninteresting, inhuman, and dreadfully boring.
I came up with this years ago and have been saying this as an online teacher or leader in one form or another for years. Why? Because it’s true! Online learning can be every bit of that – impersonal, uninteresting, inhuman, and dreadfully boring.
One of my favorite presentations that I have given is this one – How to Make Your Online Teaching More Human: 5 Ideas.
For much of my career as an online leader and educator, I have been dealing with this aspect of online learning. Distance education from the beginning until today suffers from transactional distance. That’s just the way it is, by definition. However, as an online teacher, there are things that you can do to make your course more human and to help minimize the psychological and communication gap that transactional distance creates. So, please feel free to explore the slide deck for this presentation to discover 5 ways to make your online teaching more human.
