Attendance is different online, in fact, it’s called participation. Attendance is not a part of online learning. I think it’s important to use the right words and definitions that differentiate online learning from traditional in-person, classrooms of physical spaces. I say this simply because of much explanation necessary to evaluate and explain differences and use in words, especially during a time of computerized learning, teaching, automation, and robotic use.
Use the Write Words.
It’s not strictly monitored; we are expected to be adult professionals, of high value and knowledge, professional skill, maturity, and ability. Monitoring is for younger generations that require supervision, an intervention, or facilitation. The difference for us, is that there are a greater number of monitors in use; being completely different than surveillance, or classroom monitoring.
Student interaction and monitoring is best suited for psychologists and sociologists. Students who ‘monitor’ social or interactive behavior naturally, most likely do so naturally because of their interest in the differences between in-person and online behavior. If there were a psychologist onboard, they would diagnose us with anti-social personalities because we are solely focused on writing, researching, and posting academics, where no in-person social or professional interaction takes place. It is the nature of the design, but we’re hoping each person can socially interact with others and compare their levels of knowledge and how IT works in areas where there are no employed doctors of IT or visible evidence of advanced technology (such as quantum physics, or AI) seen.
Some are sensitive word evaluators, in the context of the law, education, technology, and interaction, for the purpose of clarity and proof; variation of ‘speech’ and ‘type’ or use because of previous landmark legal cases that truly disrupted a nation that had and continue to have devastating effects, resulting in injuries, loss of money, economic downturn, and long term dysfunction.
The word “engagement” is questionable, as it has a marital element; and traditions have changed since President Clinton and Hilary were in college; it’s not about getting married or crafting legal defenses because a value was missing or moral code violated. This is why terminology is so important, when ‘values’ and ‘codes’ are used and AI emerges to bring emotional(ess) and heartless decision makers into the process — the world and tech leaders fear devastation and heartbreak because we are human and regardless if “we here” understand the difference or not, it does not mean that everyone and everything does, so consideration must be made in careful selection, just as we carefully create selection, we too should also carefully select our words.