The electronic mail is one of the more popular aspects of the Internet. It is an incentive to teachers to integrate this tecnological resource into their respective subjects. It may be used as a technique for bettering the teaching-learning process. Teachers in some subjects, in courses at graduate and master levels at the Federal University of Ceará, have considered enrolled students using the electronic mail with a view to bettering the exchange of information among students and teachers. The objective of this research is to access the opinions of the students with reference to the use of the electronic mail and the instructional success its use affords. A questionaire containing two scales of opinions was applied to a random sample of 123 students studying a subject that was using the electronic mail. It was observed that only 27,6% of those interviewed showed a high level of concordance with the 13 items scale referring to the use of the electronic mail. However, 72,5% of those who answered the 12 items scale questionaire regarding instructional success and an exchange of experiences showed a high level of agreement.
Technical education; Distance education; Electronic mail; Teaching with technology
