SPECIFICITIES OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

An important. task of the educator is to contribute to the development of interactive learning community to facilitate collaboration. Collaborative learners not only enhance their knowledge but also they can be taught to respect others ideas, to accept other ways of learning. Collaborative learning involves individual learning, but it is not reducible to it. Studies of learning in groups treated learning as a fundamentally individual process. But it is necessary to analyze learning at both the individual and group level, involving phenomena such as negotiation, which are interactively made in group processes. The primary form of collaboration support is to provide an environmental communication. This may take the form of email, chat, discussion forums, video-conferencing, instant messaging, and so on, being useful combinations of different communication media, which are of special functionality. The purpose of this study is to identify the performance of electronic communication media used by teachers for lifelong learning, aimed at achieving goals such as a picture of the most common forms of e-learning that enables teachers to maximize their own teaching. The study results show that teachers, regardless of teaching experience, profile/ specialization or residential environment: use electronic communication media to complete vocational education, promoting collaborative learning.