2.+ Learner+Knowledge+Gaps

" You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it." **//Seymour Papert//**
=Online instructors and past online students have voiced their concerns about online learning through exit surveys conducted at the end each term within the last year. It is through their voice that the college have recognized a need for Online Student Orientation.=

==The purpose of Online Student Orientation is to minimize those gaps recognized by both online instructors and past online students. Too, research within the last 5 years have acknowledge the importance of Online Student Orientation to students success in an online learning environment. Online classes require online students to posses specific set-skills like technology and Web 2.0 educational tools. Therefore, Online Student Orientation is pertinent to our students' success in the college's Desire2Learn learning management system.==

Gaps

 * === Entering Class ===
 * === Navigational Menu ===
 * === Communication ===
 * === Blogging ===
 * === Dropbox ===
 * ==== **Grade Book** ====