CiL: Virtual Teaching Moments

Clara Hudson, University of Scranton; and me!

Again with the poor note-taking since I was up on stage. Clara got our session going by outlining the research she’s been doing with the virtual reference logs for her VR consortium. The part that stood out the most was that her initial assumption, going into the project, was that the co-browsing feature of their VR software (they use tutor.com) would represent the greatest teaching potential, but, in fact, when she reviewed the logs, she found that the chat interaction was where the lion’s share of the teaching/learning happened.  Proof positive! This set the stage nicely for my portion, which focussed on the “virtual teaching moment” in IM. Here are the slides.
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