The student can work at the times of day that are best for the student. Also, students can save the time and expense of commuting to physical classes that are wholly replaced by email instruction. Variable Remote Access. Students and teacher can communicate with each other no matter where they are in the world so long as they have access to a computer that can be linked to the internet. In essence, an email from one floor away is identical to one that comes from someone 12,000 miles away.
Remote access is the most exciting characteristic of email.
This remote access facilitates the building of interesting teaching teams, it permits students from different schools to participate in the same class, and it makes scheduling relatively unimportant so long as participants are responding within a workable period of time. Email can be an especially efficient means of communication because the participants do not have to simultaneously share the same time and location. Telephones, for a century now, have freed us of the location requirement, but they still require the participants to use the device at the same time unless they are willing to pursue the discussion through voice mail. With email, the participants need not synchronize the time and place of their communications. Transmission of documents.