If used correctly this can become both a compensatory and an educational tool. It is compensatory because a visile person can use a visual perception channel while an audile person can use an auditory one and the combination-dependent person can have both. From an educational point of view it may even become possible to influence, from an early age, the development of our ability to perceive, for example by using computer games which stimulate our weakest perception channel. In Internet-based courses, within a few weeks, an elite of strong, forthright students comes to the fore. In many cases, it is as if abilities appear that do not exist when someone is peering over their shoulder or rushing them.
Asynchronous communication provides scope for new talents.
Not only for those who are extremely slow, who were unable to keep up, or for those who are extremely quick, who were always bored, but also for those who were held back by the need for synchroneity. There is more scope for individual differences. Universities and Learning by Searching Today's universities have two cornerstones. In fact, they are so closely related that the kinship between the researcher and the student as searchers represents a glimmering opportunity. It is certainly reasonable to assume that new research methods and results can be successfully taught in the very environment where they were formed and by the very people who were involved in the process.