A longitudinal study of the uptake of and confidence in using e-mail among parks management students

This paper details a longitudinal study into the e-mail habits of first year students at Charles Sturt University. This study is part of ongoing research investigating the factors and barriers that can influence the successfully adoption of technology into the learning environment. The findings from this study illustrate that e-mail applications are very popular in terms of both useage as well as the high level of confidence that students exhibit. The survey identified two main areas that need to be addressed, namely the disadvantage of rural students in accessing e-mail and second that male students tend not to be as frequent users of e-mail compared to their female counterparts.