Resumen
This article focuses on education through electronic mail (email) systems. Students download the syllabus from the Web or the syllabus is emailed to each student. Email-course students buy the same books as would students enrolled in the same course taught in a traditional classroom. According to author, teaching an entire course or offering an entire degree through email is not appropriate because the present state of technology cannot effectively support audio/video Internet transactions in real time when students have at most a 56Kbps modem. Presently, there is not enough standardization in email packages and there are no checks and balances to ensure that work submitted through email is the enrolled student's and not somebody else's. As a technology matures, transition to email learning should be done in a way that students also get a quality education. The transition should be gradual. There would not be anyone to form study groups with someone to help immediately with questions, but there would not be a commute to an out-of-town college.