 | I began experimenting with e-mail listservs in my classes during WS 1995. |
| Today, listservs and web-based discussion boards are mandatory components
in all my classes. |
| These simple
electronic resources expand discussion and interaction.
 | They also provide me with
efficient means of distributing detailed explanations to the entire
class. |
| They also appear to stimulate the interest of many students in further
exploration of electronic resources available through the university.
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| They provide a forum for students who would not normally be engaged in
class room discussion. |
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| Students
respond very favorably. |
| For many students, my classes are the first structured opportunities
they have for learning about electronic mail and the Internet.
| Over the past 5 years over 4000 students have been exposed to the
Internet in my classes. |
| During
a
typical year I process approximately 5000 message from the 800 or so
students in my classes.
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| My course WWW pages are cited in over 140 world wide web sites here in the
United States and abroad (this is more than a doubling
of online citations and links from last year).
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| I receive an average of 25
comments, questions, and requests a month from both students and
colleagues at other institutions, as well as private internet “surfers,”
who find my online class resources useful and relevant to their individual
interests, teaching, and research concerns. |
