{"id":36,"date":"2022-11-15T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=36"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:30:55","slug":"module-2-discussion-forums","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/chapter\/module-2-discussion-forums\/","title":{"raw":"Module 2 - Introduction","rendered":"Module 2 &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-259 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/>A\u00a0<b>discussion forum\u00a0<\/b>is a versatile activity within Moodle. Forums assist faculty in facilitating instructor-to-student interaction as well as peer-to-peer interaction among students. Within Moodle, forums can be used to review and discuss broad course content, focus on specific questions about content, collaborate, and\/or share resources. Some faculty decide to use forums as a resource thread for discussion among group members working on a project; whereas, other faculty may use a blog-like format to offer a pseudo-social network within the course. Forums are flexible and can generally accommodate project ideas that may seem difficult to adapt to an online learning environment.<\/p>","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-259 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles.png 500w, https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles-65x36.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles-225x126.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/11\/chat-bubbles-350x196.png 350w\" \/>A\u00a0<b>discussion forum\u00a0<\/b>is a versatile activity within Moodle. Forums assist faculty in facilitating instructor-to-student interaction as well as peer-to-peer interaction among students. Within Moodle, forums can be used to review and discuss broad course content, focus on specific questions about content, collaborate, and\/or share resources. Some faculty decide to use forums as a resource thread for discussion among group members working on a project; whereas, other faculty may use a blog-like format to offer a pseudo-social network within the course. Forums are flexible and can generally accommodate project ideas that may seem difficult to adapt to an online learning environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":32,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions\/387"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/32"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/mfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}