Design Facilitations 101 for Online/Distance Education: The ‘Crowded Cabin’ Challenge
Groucho: “Listen, I’m getting the manicure. Get out of here, will you?”
Manicurist: “Did you want your nails long or short?”
Groucho: “You better make them short. It’s getting kind of crowded in here. I don’t know. This isn’t the way I pictured an ocean voyage. I always visualized myself in a steamer chair with a steward bringing me bouillon.
Chico: “Come on, Riccardo. You couldn’t get bouillon in unless they brought it in through a keyhole.”
[Knock at the cabin door]
Engineer’s assistant: “I’m the engineer’s assistant.”
Groucho: “I had a premonition you were going to show up. The engineer’s over there in the corner. You can chop your way right through. Is it my imagination, or is it getting crowded in here?
Chico: “I got plenty of room.”
[Another knock at the cabin door]
Groucho: “Yes?”
Young Woman: “Is my Aunt Minnie in here?”
Groucho: “You can come in and prowl around if you want to. If she isn’t in here, you can probably find somebody just as good.[1]
