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Tanya Joosten
Jan 7, 2011, 12:34:59 PM1/7/11
to UWM's Digital Future: University Operations & Services
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/technology/21email.html?_r=1
....And you enjoy using e-mail.
Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages.
These have been on the rise for years but are now threatening to
eclipse e-mail, much as they have already superseded phone calls.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/06/college_technology_officers_consider_changing_norms_in_student_communications
...All this has left campus technologists to ponder the future of
institutional e-mail systems, which are still by and large the
standard electronic medium connecting colleges with their students.
If students are in fact moving away from e-mail in their personal
lives, institutionally provided student e-mail accounts will probably
diminish in popularity over the next few years, campus technologists
say, and that could force colleges to rethink the most reliable ways
to stay in touch with their students.
....And you enjoy using e-mail.
Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages.
These have been on the rise for years but are now threatening to
eclipse e-mail, much as they have already superseded phone calls.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/06/college_technology_officers_consider_changing_norms_in_student_communications
...All this has left campus technologists to ponder the future of
institutional e-mail systems, which are still by and large the
standard electronic medium connecting colleges with their students.
If students are in fact moving away from e-mail in their personal
lives, institutionally provided student e-mail accounts will probably
diminish in popularity over the next few years, campus technologists
say, and that could force colleges to rethink the most reliable ways
to stay in touch with their students.
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