[Hong] Electronic Communication
What are the limitations, expectations, problems, and/or concerns that you experienced and/or foresee with these three types of distance learning communication mediums? A threaded discussion: Pros of online threaded discussions vary. First of all, everyone has a chance to post and share their thoughts. It also gives plenty of time to think before posting and review it. Personally, though, it was easy not to keep track of the conversations after submitting my assignment, so I missed some discussions for sure, which would be a clear disadvantage of the threaded discussion. Email discussion: The pros are that everyone can check the conversation anytime when available and respond to it because email is accessible from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection. Email users should remember that every email would be records of lawful documents anytime. My previous school district trained us, the education specialists, to be very cautious about using emails to comm...