Opportunities to include electronic collaboration tools such as e-mail, web documents, and discussion forums within traditional classroom instruction are expanding. These electronic collaboration tools are out comes of the networking technologies that have arisen during the 1990s. They serve both as alternatives to personal interactions of teachers and students and as an extension of traditional classroom instruction.
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