Personality and psychometric testing, blind auditions, webcam interviews and nameless CVs are on the rise, but in a face-to-face environment, anything from gender, race, clothing, education and accent can provide an unwitting platform for discrimination.
makes electronic communication different than the communication in a face-to-face environment.
Assessment is conducted in a proctored face-to-face environment, where the student's photo is incorporated into the answer form.
Zhang and Rahimi (2014) investigated three sources in a face-to-face environment: teacher, peer and self-correction.
In the face-to-face context most assessments are conducted in a proctored face-to-face environment, though there is some use of projects, essays and oral presentations.
The anonymity offered by the web tempts people to behave in a way they would not in a face-to-face environment, he added.
Vaughan (2010) provides some useful pointers to designing a blended learning environment: a reflective combination of asynchronous and synchronous discourse; flexibility and freedom in the online learning, combined with expert guidance in a purposeful face-to-face environment.
The state-of-the-art ACLS training is conducted in a face-to-face environment under expert supervision and suffers from several drawbacks including conflicting care provider schedules and high cost of training equipment.
Table 3 Teachers' views on frequency of types of cheating – mean scores and Mann-Whitney U test results University A University B Mann-Whitney_U N = 31 N = 100 U-test p FACE-TO-FACE: In invigilated exams carried out in a face-to-face environment, or in non-invigilated assessments (e.g. assignments such as essays, course work, or dissertations) submitted on paper 1.
Askar and Altun, (2008) found that learners were satisfied with face-to-face sessions of the blend with t-tests and ANOVA results indicating female scores as higher than for males in the satisfaction with face-to-face environment of the blended learning.
