Responsiveness of academics to e-mails: India versus the West

摘要

E-mail is an easy, instant, secure, egalitarian, inexpensive and environmentfriendly form of communication with the added advantages of easy sharing and archival. According to the Journal of Educational Computing Research, the promptness and regularity of professors in responding to e-mails are significant factors for improved professor–student social relationship and teaching/research outcomes 1 .