Barriers to Effective Communication
Human communication lies in the fact that the dialogue neither enforces one’s opinion against the other’s one, nor does it add one’s opinion to the other’s one as in some mathematical addition. The dialogue changes both of them. A successful dialogue is of such character that it is impossible to fall again into the disagreement that caused it.
It is only community, which is so common that it is no longer my or your view but the way how we mutually interpreted the world, what enables moral and social solidarity. What is right and what is considered to be correct, that in its substance needs society, which comes into being by means of mutual human understanding. The mutual view is in reality being built all the time in mutual dialogue and then it again falls into the silence of understanding and common place.
Or this reason, it is considered justified the assertion that all non-verbal forms of understanding aim back to the understanding that spreads through speech and dialogue. These are barriers to understanding, which are given by the character of virtual study environment which can be overcome, for example by technical perfection, only when this environment comes closer to reality. There are certain limits in this dialogue, certain barriers to understanding, which have extra-causal basis. Let us list at least the most marked ones:
- Cultural and national differences;
- Overall life temperament;
- Personal disposition and character;
- Type of thinking, paradigm of rationality;
- Professional difference;
- Age difference;
- Experiential and knowledge difference;
- Language barrier.
Virtual study environment provides structured contents of the subject of study in terms of syllabus and study materials as well as sets of questions, tasks and tests and self- tests, which are composed mainly on the basis of utterance logic and in accord with didactic principles of increasing demands and clarity (there are used not only pictures, but also schemes, visualizations, audio tools, etc.). It also offers space for communication by means of “dialogues” with various focuses and levels of engagement and shared work space, which enables virtual communities to cooperate at common projects.
