Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, June 11, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061101u.htm

Online Education's Drawbacks Include Misunderstood E-Mail Messages, Panelists Say
JEFFREY R. YOUNG

E-mail makes it easier than ever for professors and students to communicate -- and, unfortunately, to miscommunicate. Some distance-education professors say they are surprised at how often students misinterpret messages online. That was one of several drawbacks to distance education that were discussed Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors. The meeting, titled "Distancing Education," was intended as a look at the effects of technology and commercialization on the life of professors....

 



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