Online educational counselling for students with special needs: building rapport
Distance learners with long-term health problems face a number of difficulties in their studies. These include severe fatigue, problems of manual dexterity, academic and social isolation, together with a need for better interactive communication with support agencies (Debenham, 1996a). It was expect...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association for Learning Technology
1999-12-01
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| Series: | Research in Learning Technology |
| Online Access: | http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/11234 |
| Summary: | Distance learners with long-term health problems face a number of difficulties in their studies. These include severe fatigue, problems of manual dexterity, academic and social isolation, together with a need for better interactive communication with support agencies (Debenham, 1996a). It was expected that the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) could provide a possible way to tackle all four problems described above. |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7069 2156-7077 |