During this topic I focused on how to try to ensure good communication in courses. Good and honest communication among students and between teachers and students are keys for a successful course.
Successful interpersonal communication enhances learning. Building trust is essential to deal with emotional issues that arise in courses. It is essential for the teacher to try to create an environment that allowes students to communicate among their peers and with the teachers. Studies found that students who provide and receive feedback gain most from collaborative learning, so open communication is key.
”Students’ perceptions of the way the instructor has provided structure and guidance for the online collaborative activity are related to their perceptions of peer interactions and to the perceived learning. In other words, the better the students understood the instructions and assessment of collaborative activities, the more they perceived they were connected with their classmates and the more they learned from these activities.” (Faja, 2013).
So it is important that the teacher try to ensure good communication among students and between the student group and the teaching staff. While doing this it is allso a good idea to try to ”sell” what is about to be learnt and how the students learn. This is to create an possitive atmophere around what the students are about to experience.
Bjurax Blogg 
This time you reason about good communication both between teacher-student and between peers. You talk about building trust to deal with emotions and you even say that good communication enhances learning. The teacher is also essential for setting this up. You really say that this is important. But how do we then do this? How do we build trust? And how do we set up the really good communication?
GillaGilla