Chat As New Pedagogy: The Emerging Communities of Learners in Higher Education

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Author(s): Gary B. Peters (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch015

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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There is a new pedagogy in which college professors use computer information technology as a means to enhance effective collaboration. The World Wide Web, e-mail, discussion boards, chat rooms, and Instant Messaging are services offered on the Internet. As a new medium of communication, this emerging technology offers educators unprecedented opportunities to augment or fully devote courses to innovative formats. Chat provides a venue for communities of learners to communicate in real time. A chat room is a Web application that allows two or more people to type messages to each other at the same time. There are many types of chat rooms used by online learning communities via the Internet.

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