Relationships On the Line
Joan Cashion, Director, TAFE School of Social Sciences, Swinburne University
of Technology, Wantirna, 3152
Email: joan.cashion@swin.edu.au
Phoebe Palmieri, Director, Phoebe Palmieri Pty. Ltd., East Ivanhoe, 3079.
Email: p.palmieri@a1.com.au
Keywords
on-line learning, on-line education, e-learning, teaching on-line, on-line communication,
on-line relationships, on-line teachers , on-line research
Abstract
Student involvement with on-line education is rapidly on the increase as
educational organisations use the information communication technologies
(ICTs) for the delivery and/or enhancement of many of their courses.
Student responses to this can be extremely positive, but that is not so in
all cases. Some of the critical components of quality on-line learning
are the interactions and relationships that happen through the medium and
the success of the experience will depend on the interaction and responses
between teacher and learner, or between the learners.
The other relationship that is important with on-line learning is the
relationship of the learner with the work. Self-motivation and self-discipline
are essential to on-line learning. VET students are not always necessarily
ready for independent learning, and the blend of face-to-face with the use
of the on-line technologies often provides the most successful, flexible
solution for them.
This paper presents learner perspectives on relationships through the
on-line technologies. The research is part of a project commissioned
by the National Centre for Vocational Educational Research to look at the”
Quality in On-line Learning: The Learner’s View” in the VET sector.
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