Good Practice Encourages Cooperation Among Students. Much learning is enhanced when it is experienced through team effort. Sharing one's own ideas and responding to others' reactions improves thinking and deepens understanding. E-mail clearly overcomes the limitations of schedules and space and allows an extensive cooperation between students without any requirement that they be in the same place at the same time. Good Practice Encourages Active Learning.
Research shows that doing is important to learning.
Through technology, students can team-revise and edit a manuscript, compose music, see the results of varying chosen parameters in equations, and do simulated experiments in virtual laboratories where assembly of components and effects of changing component settings can be learned prior to dealing with the actual physical equipment. Good Practice Gives Prompt Feedback. Students need appropriate feedback on their performance. Technology allows students constant opportunities to perform and receive suggestions for improvement. Computers can store, organize, and provide quick access to student work, which can serve as a record of each student's improvement and intellectual growth.