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dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-09T21:10:18Z
dc.date.available2008-12-09T21:10:18Z
dc.date.issued2008-12-09T21:10:18Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2149 /1783
dc.descriptionKadi Purru and I had both planned to attend, but Kadi was unable to attend at the last minute. I decided to proceed with a presentation but altered the content. My presentation was part of a 1.5 hour entitled, Narrative of Teaching and Learning on May 9 at 4:30 p.m. (Six other sessions were running concurrently.) Twenty people attended our session. My presentation was twenty-five minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. My paper was well received. Discussion pursued pedigogical implications of social presence and what needs to happen next. I explained how this narrative in/forms a research proposal to explore experiences of online distance sessional instructors.en
dc.description.abstractThe number and choice of online and distance graduate education programs in Canada is growing. Literature of this emerging field debates the quality of programs and delivery strategies to ensure that students feel connected and part of a community of learners. Alarmingly, little, if any, attention has been paid to instructors in these online distance programs and their practices of teaching as well as issues of 'online living'. John Durham Peters (1999) suggests that the desire for presence and intimacy underpins all modern communication. We see these desires at work in distance and online teaching and learning. Light is commonly cast on the experiences of distance students. In this inquiry, we flood light on instructors and ask: How do they/we create community support, friendship, collegialtiy, digital intimacy among the teachers of online distant education? How do we share personal and intimate experiences and affective resonances across distance and displacements? How do we 'become real' in the realm of virtual reality? In effect, this work calls into question the taken for granted understanding that proximity is the realm of intimacy and distance is the realm of estrangement. We are focusing on these questions by drawing upon our phone narratives produced while teaching two separate sections of an online asynchronous graduate research methodologies course. Thus the site of our inquiry is a mentoring relationship within the university of distant education. We, two Athabasca University professors, investigate the phone narratives of our experiences and inquire performatively into multiple boundary crossings/blurrings in between (private, public) personal, pedagogical, political callings.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAcademic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF)en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries92.927.G1047;
dc.titlePhone Narratives: In Between Private, Public, Personal, Pedagogical, Political Calls presented at the Narrative Matters Conference in Toronto, ON, May 6-10, 2008en
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