Abstract:

In this 21st century, both developing and developed countries are providing technology based distance mode of learning to the learners. Along with the traditional textbooks, blogs, tweets, podcast, webcast, online chats, discussion boards, and other virtual modes are becoming more popular and influencing the masses. Now a day, electronic mailing is the cheapest and accessible mode of learning. The main objectives of the study were to assess the effects of asynchronous e-mail on the performance in relations to thinking skills, executive functions and attention benefits of elementary students. The whole  standard eight students (n=46), age range was 13.1 years- 13.7 years mean age 13.3 and SD 2.2 of Holy Cross school, Silchar, Assam, India was the experimental group was assigned for asynchronous e-mail learning. Pre-test posttest along with these attentions, working memory and executive functions scale was administered to assess the effects of asynchronous e-mail on the performance in relations to thinking skills, executive functions and attention benefits of elementary students. It was resulted that asynchronous e-mail learning was effective and the attention, working memory and executive functions of students has significant relations with their performance. 

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