Electronic mail or in short “email” is one of the most popular and useful features of the Internet. By definition, it is mail delivered through electronic means. However, while tracing the development of email communication Tao and Reinking (1996) identified at lest three definitions of email: 1) It is mail being transmitted electronically. This definition embraces fax and telex. 2) It is only communication through computers but would include graphics as well as texts as appropriate email communication. 3) It is only text being transmitted through computers between senders and receivers. Today, email is primarily known as communication from one person to another or many others through the use of computer and networks.
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Media (especially electronic media) plays a significant role in the delivery of educational opportunities to people who need education at their door-step, study at their own pace, time and place. Educator’s tryst with technology has been a story of evolution of the media itself. Starting from the use of blackboard and the printed textbook for mass education, educators have always experimented with the use of technologies to improve their teaching and learning at all levels. With the emergence of a variety of Computer and Communication Technologies, the process of adoption and adaptation of innovative technologies for the purposes of education and research has increased manifold. The use of technologies for teaching and learning has been broadly used as Educational Technology, which is the field concerned with the design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) de...