Share Paper: An Attention to Place in Online Education

1. Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University, United States

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show some of the ways that place matters in online education, and in that ‘showing,’ hopefully prompt more questions and ideas around our attentiveness to place in our online courses. There are many ways that place, and a consciousness of place, matter for online education, but for the sake of space, I will focus on two: Place matters in online education because our physical place—our locations—shape the kind of access and experience we have in online courses; and, Place matters because it shapes who we are, and creating the opportunity for students to ...