Teachers facilitate the process and guide learners collaboratively. It facilitates student centred learning which allows choice in pathways for learning. As mentioned above, there are different modes of communication. A person can send and receive email from anyone with an Internet address. Email can be sent to one or many people and documents, images, sound and multimedia can be attached to the email.
Participants can belong to listservs.
This is where a message posted to one address can be send to the many people who subscribe to the listserv. It may be thought of as a bulk mail out by posting only one message to one email address. A conference tends to be centred around a particular theme or project idea and the conference's name gives an indication as to what organisation or interest group it belongs to. An electronic conference is divided up into topics and allows people to not only initiate their own topic within the conference, but respond to existing topics and topic responses. If you like, a topic is like a discussion group within the room and there may be several small discussion groups within this given room.