Over 60,000 electronic bulletin boards are used by more than 12 million Americans every day. The Department of Education has a Gopher server which points to or contains educational research information, such as the AskERIC service and information from sources such as CNN, Academy One, and the Educational Testing Service. NASA Spacelink makes lesson plans on space flight and related science topics available on the Internet. This includes communication via electronic mail and conferencing among teachers, students, workers, mentors, technicians, and subject matter experts of every sort. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University teaches a writing course entirely online.
Students swap writing projects and discuss their assignments online.
In the workplace, electronic mail is used by more than 12 million workers, increasing to over 27 million workers by 1995. Just less than a sixth of U.S. homes now have at least one computer connected to a modem, and this percentage is growing rapidly. There are now 60 countries on the Internet. About 137 countries can now be reached by electronic mail. In South Carolina, high school students across the state study with a teacher of Russia based in Columbia through South Carolina Educational Television.