The Interrelationship of Encouragement

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• The Interrelationship of Encouragement
  Confrontation with Online Education
• Daniel Eckstein, Donna Eckstein, Chi-Sing Li,
  and Yu-Fin Lin
• Presented at
• The Society for Information Technology Teacher
  Education International Conference in San
  Antonio, TX March 26-30, 2007.
• The National Technology Social Science
  Conference in Las Vegas, NV April 6-8,2008.

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Online Education Creating a synergistic effect
with two approaches using online tools.
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• Dinkmeyer and Ecksteins definition of
  encouragement
• A process that focuses on the individuals
  resources and potential to
• enhance self-esteem
• self-acceptance.

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To encourage is to unite dualities such as
Fear...........Courage Male...........Female
Instructor.....Student
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• Seven Methods of Encouragement
• Role Model
• Identifying Strengths Weakness
• Consistency of Support over the Long Haul
• Seeing the Person as Special
• Passionate Inspiration
• Supporting a Person's Special Interests
• Encouraging Career Choices

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Methods of Encouragement Applied to Online Tools
Announcements Calendar Mail Gradebook
Assignments Discussions Learning Modules
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• The Four
• Directions
• of Encouragement
• Downward
• Across
• Upward
• Inward

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• Confrontation
• Respectful Confrontation is
  paradoxically an essential aspect of
  encouragement.
• Stroke and Spit (Nikelly, 1971)
• Focus on discrepancy.

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• Representative Online
• Examples Include
• Discrepancies between...
• What a student says
• he or she will do and
• what they actually do

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Between your perception of quality and
satisfactory work vs. learners with inflated
opinions of their work.
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Between the research or posted course- room
standards and how a learner is unwilling and/or
unable to follow standards.
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• Respectful Confrontation
• Can be constructive criticism.
• Does not have to be an aggressive, harsh attack.
  
• Can be done when students are respectfully
  invited to examine their behaviors,
  attitudes, and thoughts.

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• Information Consent
• Ethical considerations with online education.
• Giving and receiving of facilitative
  expectations, feedback, and grades need to be
  stated up front in the syllabus.

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Examples of Online Encouragement

• Creative Critical Thinking Skills
• College Level Writing Skills
• Active Participation
• Effective Time Management Skills

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Examples of Online Confrontation

• Plagiarism
• Poor Writing Skills
• Inactive Participation
• Poor Time Management Skills

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The Interrelationship of Encouragement
Confrontation with Online Education

• Plagiarism
• Poor Writing Skills
• Inactive Participation
• Poor Time Management Skills

• Creative Critical Thinking Skills
• College Level Writing Skills
• Active Participation
• Effective Time Management Skills