A Neophyte About Online Teaching: Almost Done Export

@article{citeulike:3430316, abstract = {The following autoethnography reflects a neophyte instructor's obsession with teaching an online graduate course. The experience forces her to move ethnographically forward and backward with students in a novel, and sometimes, more intimate fashion. She struggles to balance a serving of technology with a dollop of human interaction, but finds online teaching can be time consuming. Though students are physically dispersed and isolated, they sustain and bond in new and different ways in an online community. Her narrative reveals how technologies are created, apprehended, and used in everyday life. Online learning has become ubiquitous at all levels of education. Teachers and students need to question whether technology in their lives represents a force for good or evil. In the end, autoethnography becomes trans-formative as the author gains a heightened awareness of the social, cultural, and personal influences shaping her online teaching experience. 10.1177/1077800408322226}, author = {Lee, Karen V.}, citeulike-article-id = {3430316}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800408322226}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/7/1180}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1077800408322226}, journal = {Qualitative Inquiry}, keywords = {autoethnography, ethnography, online, qualitative, report, research, teaching, technology}, month = {October}, number = {7}, pages = {1180--1186}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 04:30:57}, priority = {2}, title = {A Neophyte About Online Teaching: Almost Done}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800408322226}, volume = {14}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3430316 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3430316 N2 - The following autoethnography reflects a neophyte instructor's obsession with teaching an online graduate course. The experience forces her to move ethnographically forward and backward with students in a novel, and sometimes, more intimate fashion. She struggles to balance a serving of technology with a dollop of human interaction, but finds online teaching can be time consuming. Though students are physically dispersed and isolated, they sustain and bond in new and different ways in an online community. Her narrative reveals how technologies are created, apprehended, and used in everyday life. Online learning has become ubiquitous at all levels of education. Teachers and students need to question whether technology in their lives represents a force for good or evil. In the end, autoethnography becomes trans-formative as the author gains a heightened awareness of the social, cultural, and personal influences shaping her online teaching experience. 10.1177/1077800408322226 IS - 7 JF - Qualitative Inquiry EP - 1186 TI - A Neophyte About Online Teaching: Almost Done VL - 14 SP - 1180 KW - autoethnography KW - ethnography KW - online KW - qualitative KW - report KW - research KW - teaching KW - technology AU - Lee, Karen PY - 2008/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800408322226 ER -