The study did not investigate the use of fax software and PCs. One would have thought that one of the advantages of fax machines is that they use a very standardised technology, the te lephone line. In the examples cited in the literature fax machines were more commonly shared than de dicated to one user. Early email systems were also seen as cumbersome and not user friendly. Many of these email difficulties are now being overcome with improved graphical inte rfaces.
Email involves the use of attachments to achieve such ends.
This obviously has implications for the course design process. He further noted that there is a need to consider tea ching style when deciding on which media to use and how to use it. Graumann s context is that of secondary education and he discusses a successful project raising the involvement of parents in pupil s learning. Strasser, working in higher education language teaching, finds similar results when developing a collaborative course between German and American students. Here draft work is exchanged and improved by students.