Teaching Online

[Adam Blatner]

Hi all. Aside from the power of email in its sociometric implications---i.e., to deepen 
tele or generate negative tele, depending on how words are chosen and strung 
together---Erica Hollander brings up another point that goes with a piece I heard this 
morning on National Public Radio: On-line instruction, increasingly pervasive in 
education: I fantasize some of our trainers individually or in collaboration working out 
an instruction program that would communicate the didactic dimensions of Morenean thought. 
There is a good deal of this, and while it cannot substitute for learning by doing, much 
could be taught in this fashion. I envision college classes---or accredited 
classes---being taught this way! Of course, it would be very clear that learning-by-doing 
and supervision is essential.

A certain part of medical training is didactic, book learning. Another part is 
experiential. Both are needed.

I'm imagining credit being given for this kind of class, both by academic institutions as 
well as by the Board of Examiners.

Another class described on the program allows for a certain amount of discussion, 
clarification, using e-broadcasting and text-messaging responses. This, too, could be 
implemented in our field.

Some classes are designed for a mixture---some of the learning happens through readings, 
on-line discussions, and this is mixed with arrangements for occasional weekend or 
week-long experiences. Different types of credit---experiential or didactic---but that is 
noted already on the "tabella" of the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, etc.

        Warmly, Adam