When considering the role of teacher, don’t forget the idea that a teacher is often a designer. A couple of years ago in my very old blog, I wrote about communities and their relationship to the course and student.
This notion of community in online environments is one that’s near and dear to my heart — the whole notion that somebody sitting at a computer tied to a network with 200million people on it can be “isolated” is a fascinating construct. None of my non-academic friends around the world understand this notion any better than I do. But here’s Rob Wall talking about how it works in education.
See what you think.