Certainly teaching in an online env

Certainly
teaching in an online environment is influenced by the absence of the non-verbal communication
that occurs in the face-to-face settings of conventional education, and the reduction in the amount
of paralinguistic information transmitted, as compared to some other modes of distance education
such as video or audio teleconferencing. However, McLuhan also noted that each new medium
takes a preceding medium for its content, and that the process of interpreting a new medium in
terms of an older one (horseless carriage effect) filters our conception of the newer medium