Comments on: E-learning design for social emotions http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/ Spinning the Social Web Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Holiday Home Web Design http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-6012 Holiday Home Web Design Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:19:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-6012 I think that perhaps our general over-exposure to disaster and gloom globally has dulled our emotional responses and compassionate natures. I think that perhaps our general over-exposure to disaster and gloom globally has dulled our emotional responses and compassionate natures.

]]> By: jclarey http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4581 jclarey Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:28:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4581 Great points Scott. I also live in a rural area and have taken online classes. I think experience has given me better critical thinking and writing skills. On compassion on the web I see extremes. There's a lot of really rude and hostile behavior on the web and also a great deal of compassion. Great points Scott. I also live in a rural area and have taken online classes. I think experience has given me better critical thinking and writing skills. On compassion on the web I see extremes. There’s a lot of really rude and hostile behavior on the web and also a great deal of compassion.

]]> By: Scott Johnson http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4580 Scott Johnson Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:43:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4580 Hi Janet, Linked here through PLENK and I'm interested in the whole notion of the internet changing people's behaviours. I personally don't think people are any less compassionate as a result of exposure to the net. In fact, I've participated in a couple of online pilot courses titled Hope Studies (sponsored by the Hope Foundation: http://www.ualberta.ca/HOPE/) that demonstrated the power of online forums to support groups of caring individuals. As someone who lives too rural to attend f2f courses I have no choice but to inhabit the online educational world and I don't see this as a restriction or a disadvantage. If I want quality, up-to-date course material, the net actually affords me more variety than I had growing up in a university town. The net also challenges me to communicate with clarity (or try) and that takes far more care than a simple conversation where I can read reaction, and correct for misunderstandings and unintended slights. I think you are right about how pacing of content can create or shatter mood. Frequent breakaways, frantic activity, loud or arousing sounds send a signal to “watch out”, be cautious! Compassion requires attentiveness and authentic presence. Care giving and dangerous situations require oddly similar attention levels and intensity of concentration. Rationally we can tell the states of being apart but it’s tough to design at the edge of two powerful behavioures. Is this a job for instructional design, choreography or musical composition? All three I’d guess. Hi Janet,
Linked here through PLENK and I’m interested in the whole notion of the internet changing people’s behaviours. I personally don’t think people are any less compassionate as a result of exposure to the net. In fact, I’ve participated in a couple of online pilot courses titled Hope Studies (sponsored by the Hope Foundation: http://www.ualberta.ca/HOPE/) that demonstrated the power of online forums to support groups of caring individuals.

As someone who lives too rural to attend f2f courses I have no choice but to inhabit the online educational world and I don’t see this as a restriction or a disadvantage. If I want quality, up-to-date course material, the net actually affords me more variety than I had growing up in a university town. The net also challenges me to communicate with clarity (or try) and that takes far more care than a simple conversation where I can read reaction, and correct for misunderstandings and unintended slights.

I think you are right about how pacing of content can create or shatter mood. Frequent breakaways, frantic activity, loud or arousing sounds send a signal to “watch out”, be cautious! Compassion requires attentiveness and authentic presence. Care giving and dangerous situations require oddly similar attention levels and intensity of concentration. Rationally we can tell the states of being apart but it’s tough to design at the edge of two powerful behavioures. Is this a job for instructional design, choreography or musical composition? All three I’d guess.

]]> By: Petya Noname http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4425 Petya Noname Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:41:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4425 I think social emotion it like a greater impression of Virtual world? I think social emotion it like a greater impression of Virtual world?

]]> By: jclarey http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4105 jclarey Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:08:49 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4105 thanks for bringing up the international aspect. i took a class once where we discussed things like color and culture...something I really wouldn't have thought of before when designing e-learning. being an ugly, one-language american, I really thought primarily about language. thanks for bringing up the international aspect. i took a class once where we discussed things like color and culture…something I really wouldn't have thought of before when designing e-learning. being an ugly, one-language american, I really thought primarily about language.

]]> By: Ener Hax http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4104 Ener Hax Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:47:32 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4104 oh boy, emotions are another challenge similar to humour for international eLearning. from my experience in developing eLearning that goes out to 70,000 users in 110 countries, a prudent and thoughtful approach is key<br><br>hopefully you have trusted associates in other countries as well as within your own organization that you can discuss this with<br><br>an example that may be of interest is how Americans (and Canadians) deal with melancholy versus the Japanese. here (US/Canada) we tend to think of sadness as a disease and term it depression and prescribe happy pills to deal with a natural condition. in Japan, being melancholy "was" embraced as part of life and not treated as a disease<br><br>thanks to a subject that i won't get on my little soapbox about, Japan now has been shown the error of their ways and how being chemically happy and adding profits to pharm companies is clearly the better way<br><br>so in that example, showing a "sad" emotion would have different interpretations<br><br>it is so easy to think that the world is the same as us, but it is not<br><br>thanks for the great post (as always) oh boy, emotions are another challenge similar to humour for international eLearning. from my experience in developing eLearning that goes out to 70,000 users in 110 countries, a prudent and thoughtful approach is key

hopefully you have trusted associates in other countries as well as within your own organization that you can discuss this with

an example that may be of interest is how Americans (and Canadians) deal with melancholy versus the Japanese. here (US/Canada) we tend to think of sadness as a disease and term it depression and prescribe happy pills to deal with a natural condition. in Japan, being melancholy “was” embraced as part of life and not treated as a disease

thanks to a subject that i won't get on my little soapbox about, Japan now has been shown the error of their ways and how being chemically happy and adding profits to pharm companies is clearly the better way

so in that example, showing a “sad” emotion would have different interpretations

it is so easy to think that the world is the same as us, but it is not

thanks for the great post (as always)

]]> By: Judy Unrein http://janetclarey.com/2010/02/27/e-learning-design-for-social-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-4102 Judy Unrein Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:40:24 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=2415#comment-4102 Janet, great post! I had the privilege of viewing this course recently and I think you're right... it's an excellent example of how elearning CAN effectively deal with emotional content. Thanks for pointing out an element that helps this design deal with it effectively: the time allowed for processing both the intellectual and emotional content, as well. Brings to mind that that's a cultural factor, as well... you wouldn't want to do a course like this between phone calls in a call center or other busy environment! Janet, great post! I had the privilege of viewing this course recently and I think you're right… it's an excellent example of how elearning CAN effectively deal with emotional content. Thanks for pointing out an element that helps this design deal with it effectively: the time allowed for processing both the intellectual and emotional content, as well. Brings to mind that that's a cultural factor, as well… you wouldn't want to do a course like this between phone calls in a call center or other busy environment!

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