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should I wrrite my heuristics here?

 My decision to write this heuristics is mostly inclined by my own experience. I, as a new student, felt the motivational issue was frightening since the beginning of e-learning class. The first weeks were the only time for raising a frustrating question “Can I resist with this online class?” Encouragement of motivation by boosting the use of daily portable technologies like mobile phones is exceedingly essential. As supported by Cocea (2006, p414) one of the main factors in proceeding online learning successfully is the motivation itself. Regarding the reality of a long-distance learning that students tend to have lack interaction because of their physical separation from teacher and peers (Bai 2003, p174), maintaining students’ motivation trough mobile technologies is appropriately promising and applicable.  
 * Boost the use of Mobile technologies to maintain motivation in e-learning class. **

  ** Keep supporting live chat sessionUse **** social networking sites  **** to keep the relationships. ** For me, the next level of experiencing online class is findings methods that may be best suited to the class. While in conventional class, a teacher conducts research to find the most appropriate media and techniques to teach in his classroom, teacher in online class investigates them on various online media by seeing the targeted-students. For those so called “beginners” whose knowledge and experience in e-learning are still low, a teacher should intentionally practice the synchronous delivery model. The synchronous model is delivery techniques and strategies that allow students and teachers or experts meet together in one time in one line. Dupuis (2010, p2922) has shown that this approach is effective for secondary level students, however I tend to believe that this model is also working for higher level students who have never been familiar with online class with low-moderate independency in learning. It is supported by Gunawardena et. al, (2001), that the characteristics of the students should be taken into consideration as one of the aspects of making certain model of online learning.  ** Don't make the class disoriented by the hypertext of online learning material. ** This third heuristic suggests specifically about being aware to organize hypertext wisely that in certain cases tends to be detrimental. Even it is believed that hypertext is one way to keep attracting people to come and read the prepared websites (Pfaffenberger, 1997), in educational setting, it tends to make students overloaded and disoriented (Kushnir, 2010). It is because in the online learning material setting, students “have” to read and understand all information instead of “being free” to read and search information they wish for. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It is argued that students perform better when the material is presented in the form scrolling down or no-hypertext at all(Kushnir, 2010). The hypertext might be challenging in the first time, but for the long term, the online learning material is easier to develop and follow. By giving hypertext, students are given the control anytime they wish instead of reading the whole material of one concept at a time (Pfaffenberger, 1997), <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"> ** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Use **** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">social networking sites  **** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">to keep the relationships. ** <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I assume that this is possibly become an important discussion to be part of my last heuristics, which is keeping the online learning community after the course ends, by using available social networking sites. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Unlike the conventional class where students meet and interact psychically, in online class, students rarely do this. Real interaction in conventional class that is supported with traditional social norms of dominating face-to-face interaction triggers students to keep in touch after the course end; but students in online class interact each other without seeing the boundaries of race, geography, and any other social limitations. In other words, online class offers stronger promise to get wider community to support the further global connection now and in the future for students, teachers and institution. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">By using available social networking, students, teachers and institution can keep the connection freely and conveniently. Either synchronous or asynchronous communication tools can be used as different enjoyment felt by different people.