D.1.3. Discussion or other collaborative tools are planned to use
Discussions tools are necessary for providing important imformation for students, as well as for teacher by students. It may be a forum, wikis or other tools that enable discussions.
What should be done to satisfy the criteria?
Teacher information forum may be used for teacher announcements or important messages for students. As forums in VME are usually connected to the emails (various subsciption possibilities depesnt on the teacher, user and chosen environment), the possibility provides users to follow the discussions via their own email.
Discussion forums for students may be used for different purposes. First, they can be used for organizational issues - usually there are some common questions that the answers are important for all students. So the organizational issues forum may be used for teacher instead of writing the same type of emails for learners. This kind of forums also provide possibilities for learners to react and answer the questions raised by other learners. Second, the forums may be used for certain activities, i.e. certain topic discussions. Third, they may be used for learner feedback.
Wiki maybe used for collaborative group work and discussions.