"Sometimes, I feel a bit decoupled": Strategies in Videoconference Teaching

This paper is about videoconference interaction and teaching strategies. On the basis of participant observation and detailed video analyses of videoconference teaching, this paper lists three different categories that were employed in a professional bachelor’s programme in physiotherapy. These categories were developed with respect to the ways the teaching strategies include or relate to the e-learning space in the physical part of the videoconference classroom. The study found a distancing strategy which was employed in order to focus activities in the physical classroom and keep the videoconference space at a distance; an appendixing strategy which linked the e-learning space to the physical one by the use of specific technology, communication form and time; and an annexing strategy which related to both the physical space and the e-learners’ space and coupled the two spaces by very frequent use of multimodal communication with both groups of students.