The chat rooms and the e-mail keep us very busy. The hours of instruction now are so varied that professors such as Marina McIsaac at Arizona State University can teach from the Middle East using video conferencing. McIsaac teaches all her classes online. The Arizona State University professor gets her students from all over the world. She puts her syllabus on the Web.
Students sign on using e-mail and then online discussions follow.
She uses videoconferencing so the students can see her when she teaches her courses on educational technology and educational science. Then, it was revolutionary. Now a lot of people are doing it. This kind of instruction improves the level of discussion. You get a much deeper level of communication.