Student case groups: Electronic groups versus face–to–face groups

Education + Training

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 10-13

  Lind, Mary R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic mail; File transfers; Group working; Training techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986052288     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400919610127370     Document Type: Article

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9. File transfer protocol (ftp) is a means of transferring large data files via the Internet. This allowed the students to use their desktop word processing language and then to transmit the question answers quickly to a central ftp site for retrieval by their group members. Each group had its own ftp site which was password protected.
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11. These 34 students were all at a historically black college where 98 per cent of the student body is African American.
12. Electronic group case grades were determined by averaging the grade of each faculty member that had a student participating in the group.