Traditional student/professor interaction involves office visits or telephone calls. Both modes require the participants to occupy similar space and time. Two relatively new modes of communication are now available to academia which are free of these geographic constraints: voice and electronic mail. A small study was made in the College of Business and Industry at Mississippi State University to see what benefits could be achieved if the traditional modes of communication were augmented by the use of voice and electronic mail messages.
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