Exchange personal and biographical information between speaker and students before the telelecture¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The author recommends building personal contact into telelectures: "The students expressed considerable interest in knowing more about the speaker as a person.A picture plus some biographical information might have helped in this regard." He also suggests self-identification by each student before speaking, backed by biographical data about students sent ahead for the telelecturer's use, to help the lecturer relate more closely to the class.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Advance correspondence with the telelecturer, including biographical information and any special problems the class would like discussed.

Constraints¶

• Several speakers missed eye-to-eye contact with students, though the article reports students did not miss it.

Target Learners¶

• graduate students in library science

Target Learning Goals¶

• engaging with field experts and current information retrieval work

Related Strategies¶

• Schedule telediscussion courses weekly in two-and-one-half-hour sections with discussion before and after each telelecture
• Purposeful Scheduling for Learner Connections
• Pre-Entry Socialization

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Heiliger, Edward M. (1972). Teaching Information Retrieval Using Telediscussion Techniques. Kent State Univ., Ohio. Center for Library Studies. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED058905