Relation
Pitfall 1: Taking Social Interaction for Granted
- Because social interaction does not naturally occur in CSCL environments, it must be organized and intentionally designed into these online learning environments.
- Since social interaction in face-to-face learning groups are quite easy to achieve, they simply assume these patterns will transfer over into CSCL environments
- Thus, educators seem to take social interaction for granted and assuming that social interaction will automatically occur since technology allows it
- However computer-supportive collaborative learning environments have more barriers than face-to-face learning environments:
- Computer mediated communications (CMC) lack media richness (lacks medium’s capacity for immediate feedback, number of cues and senses, etc.)
- Text-based CMC can cause oral and written communication apprehension
- Availability of communication media is necessary for social interaction but not sufficienct
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Updated 2021-06-06
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