PPT Slide
Possible strengths of CMC
- Offers greater opportunity for reflective participation
- Tutor can more easily (and more flexibly) respond to every student individually than in the class or seminar
- Increase in the quantity and quality of communication
- Rapid revisions and exchange of textual materials
- Individual feedback can also be shared (Cc:)
- Threads and ideas can be revived & revisited more easily
“A group which exists through an exchange of written texts has the peculiar ability to recall and inspect its entire past. Nothing quite like this is available to a community based on the spoken word.” Andrew Feenberg (1989)