Communication Problems in a Distance-Education Setting: Diminishing the Impersonal Nature of a Distance-Education Classroom

by: Bruce C. Palmquist

At Central Washington University, groups of on-campus and distance education students in an elementary science methods class interacted with each other via email to complete five cooperative reaction papers. In surveys about their views on writing papers in cooperative e-mail groups, students responded that they did not feel the e-mail groups facilitated communication between groups at the two course sites.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2000Stock # jcst00_029_05_337Volume 029Issue 05

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