Online Interactions
Online learning is increasing dramatically
and is drastically changing education.
Online Interactions have both: incredible potentials
but also serious challenges for the experience of learning.
Online interactions have to bridge complexities, such as:
1. Practicalities like different time zones.
2. Knowledge Gaps through different information.
3. Differences in personal, cultural or social backgrounds.
Online Interactions
Practicalities
Knowledge Gaps
Differences
Online interactions can create challenges, such as:
1. they can feel impersonal
2. which can create emotional distance between participants
3. which can make people feel a lack of authenticity
4. which can lead to avoiding frankness around differences
5. which can result in missed learning opportunities.
CHALLENGES
Impersonal
Emotional
Distance
Lack
Authenticity
No Frankness
Missed
Learning
Opportuities
Online Interactions
Online interactions have potentials, such as:
1. they can scale and reach decisively larger groups
2. they can invite to practice the courage to connect
3. they can help to move beyond one’s
comfort-zone and bubble
4. they can support to develop one’s communication skills
5. they can create intentional learning experiences
CHALLENGES
Impersonal
Emotional
Distance
Lack
Authenticity
No Frankness
Missed
Learning
Opportuities
Online Interactions
POTENTIALS
Scaling
Practicing
Courage
Move Beyond
Bubbles
Cultivate Skills
Create
Intentional
Learning
CHALLENGES
Impersonal
Emotional
Distance
Lack
Authenticity
No Frankness
Missed
Learning
Opportuities
POTENTIALS
Scaling
Practicing
Courage
Move Beyond
Bubbles
Cultivate Skills
Create
Intentional
Learning
Trust
Building
Open
Dialogue
Processing
Heat
Authentic
Emotion
Creative
Art
To bridge differences and unlock potentials we need:
1. Trust Building activities that help personal connections
2 . Open Dialogue that enables empathic listening
3 . Authentic Emotion that can touch deeply
4 . Conflict skills for Processing Heat and disagreement
5 . Creative Art that links new insights from
the head to the heart
Finally, we need authentic SPACES TO PRACTICE
ways to bridge differences...
Engaging Processes and Clear Intentions
The Group Processes are engaging with elements such as: