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The virtual class is coming

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A long term action research programme initiated in 1987 by the Department of Communication Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, is seeking to develop a virtual class. The virtual class is regarded as the critical component of a new educational paradigm for an information society. The action research programme takes the form of a spiral of cyclical attempts to create a virtual class. Each attempt is seen as a syntagmatic episode of a virtual class paradigm attempted in the light of an existing paradigm. The results of each syntagmatic episode are seen as influencing the further development of the paradigm.

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  1. Department of Communications Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

    John Tiffin

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Tiffin, J. The virtual class is coming. Educ Inf Technol 1, 143–150 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168278

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