Benefits of Using Electronic Class Communications

• Capability for holding virtual office hours
• Asynchronous conferencing: anytime, anywhere
• Post announcements and answers... once.
  Messages are logged in conference archives, not lost.
• Students can collaborate and help themselves
• Conferencing gives students a sense of a class community
• Quiet or passive students are given another venue to participate and collaborate
• Instructors can provide timely feedback and help to the class
• Timely assessment of student understanding
• Carry some of the business of running a class... in a paperless fashion
• Increased learner-learner and learner-teacher interactions
• Distance learning and UI-OnLine technologies
• Eradicate telephone tagging!