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Use of Email in Educational Establishments - A UK and Australian Perspective
Abstract
Email is increasingly favoured as a major communication tool in UK and Australian educational establishments. The aim of this paper is to examine patterns of email usage in the two countries and to try to isolate some of the cultural aspects of the use of email between the establishments studied. These cultural aspects will be addressed more fully when the study is expanded to include other European countries. Work already undertaken (Coakes and Willis, 2000, Willis, to be published) has examined the situation in the UK in some depth. A comparison with Australia was undertaken as the first step in opening up the research on an international basis. Australia was selected because of the many similarities between the two countries. The educational establishments also follow the same lines, colleges and universities, which makes the comparison easier and the differences more visible. The same multi-choice questionnaire was utilised, this time with Leeds Metropolitan University and Doncaster College in the north of England and Victoria University of Technology, Australia. Victoria University includes both a higher education sector and a TAFE (Technical and Further Education) component. The TAFE sector is almost the equivalent of the college in the UK. This allows us to make general comparisons across both sectors whilst bearing in mind that other factors will have a part to play.
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