Dealing with the unexpected in an online course

Can any one refer me to a research paper on dealing with the unexpected circumstances when conducting an online course.

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Permalink Reply by suehellman on January 19, 2010 at 9:11am

Can you give more details? provide some examples?

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Permalink Reply by Nozipho on January 21, 2010 at 4:54am

Hello Sue, Thanks for the reply.
When conducting an online course, it is highly a likelihood that not all your expected learning outcomes will be met. It could be due to technology hiccups, learner lack of motivation, bad planning of the course, etc. I am looking for a research paper, or link that looks at how des one deal with such occurrences.

Hope its clearer.

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Permalink Reply by suehellman on January 21, 2010 at 11:31am

It sounds to me like this is where online and classroom issues really begin to overlap. That's what the art of teaching is all about is trying to figure out how to get each learner to the goal post. Let me do some thinking and looking and I'll see what I can find.