The Importance Of Distance Communication

Contact between a teacher and a student is a very important topic in education, whether someone is for it or against it. Even though it is an important topic, there are not many other studies about this topic other than this article. This article defines teacher-student contact as a two-way interactive process. In this process, both the teacher and the student influence each other’s cognitive, emotional, motivational and behavioral responses. This article gives both a theoretical and an empirical exploration of the topic. The data is gathered from two studies of classroom observation as well as interviews from both teachers and students. The article concludes with this finding, “We conclude that contact is a very personal experience, in which teachers ' ideals and core values play a central role.” For researching this article and the topic it contains, it has become clear to me that there is an issue with the way that we used one word to describe two completely different situations. On the one hand we use the word …show more content…
Because this article focus on distance education, it covers two different types of communication, the general communication that is found in an in-person education venue, as well as communication through technology that act as a mediator of the teacher and learning that is taking place at a distance. This study discovers and explains the many opportunities and barriers that affect communication. An intense review of literature on the subject of barriers that affect distance education, the technical, psychological, social cultural, and contextual challenges have led to this conclusions: as the technology that is used for distance education improves, so too does both the chances to overcome many of those barriers that create ineffective communication as well as the complexity of those barriers that are faced by those involved in the distance learning