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The Benefits of Face-to-Face Interaction in the Online Freshman Composition Course

This article recommends that instructors of online freshman composition courses incorporate actual or simulated face-to-face meetings and one-on-one conferences into their curriculums in order to improve the sense of community in the online classroom, mitigate issues with accountability, encourage exploratory discussion, engage diverse learning styles, improve student-instructor interaction, and increase their efficiency as an instructor. With the support of literature, this article claims that the intrinsic learning opportunities and benefits of face-to-face interaction in dealing with freshman composition students outweigh the inherent inconveniences that live or synchronous online features may cause.

Keywords:: efficiency., composition, exploratory learning, retention, community, face-to-face, synchronous communication, accountability

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Academic Support Services / Hybrid and Online Course Development

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 7, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:: September 2, 2020
Author:: Samuel B. Howard, Utah State University
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States