Effects of a New Teaching Method for University Students by Use of E-mails

Abstract

A new teaching method to use E-mails practiced at Rissho university proved to be very effective for Japanese students who are commonly hesitant to speak out openly about their thinking and question at a class. They were requested to make responses weekly by E-mails to texts also delivered by E-mails. Through the experiments, the author analyzed a mechanism of learning not by casting knowledge as lecture but more effectively by giving students pieces of information which may be formulated in mind as knowledge by themselves.