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The use of electronic mail in undergraduate teaching
Author(s) -
Pitt Martin
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1996.tb00142.x
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , computer science , register (sociolinguistics) , atmosphere (unit) , multimedia , electronic mail , mathematics education , world wide web , psychology , artificial intelligence , physics , linguistics , philosophy , thermodynamics
An introductory computing course is described in which the students were required to register their presence and submit assignments by electronic mail. This was found to have advantages in improving class discipline without a schoolroom atmosphere. Returning assignments by electronic mail was found to be an effective method of giving individual help to those who needed it most, and individual student misconceptions could be more easily detected.