The Center for Teaching Excellence is an initiative of the Office of the Associate Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. Its purpose is to support the campus-wide efforts to enhance and reform undergraduate education and to offer tangible assistance to individual faculty and TAs as well as to the departments and colleges in which they work. The use of electronic mail and creation of Web pages for class-related assignments has grown significantly in the past few years. Students are using electronic mail to participate in electronic class discussions or to conduct surveys for a class project.
Some classes require that papers or projects be placed on the Web for others to view and critique.
A few illustrations and the corresponding issues highlight the importance of this decision. Others decide to send their survey instrument to individuals who participate in the given newsgroup that they are examining by also using their WAM account. Discussion Students should be informed about some practical limitations to privacy when using the Internet. While it may be desirable to distinguish use for a research project on a controversial topic from personal use that may more accurately reflect one s values or personal interests, it is impossible to control the numerous ways that information gets collected and categorized on the Internet. The accounts are deleted following the completion of the class.