Some Web Approaches to these Challenges

How can these Internet tools best be used to face some of these challenges faced by education.

General Advantages of using the Internet & the World Wide Web

	Advantages	Disadvantages
1	An increasingly large amount of information is creating a Global Database.	Much of it is unstructured
2	The WWW provides an easy to move around this large global database	The hypertext format usually leads to "surfing". Fun but unproductive
3	The WWW makes is relatively easy to publish material	Easy to do, hard to do well!

General Advantages of using the Internet & the World Wide Web for teaching

The WWW provides flexible access to course material structured as virtual textbooks: Less dependance on the lecturer/teacher. Requires flexible access to computing facuilities
Email: Email provides a more flexible and in general quicker feedback mechanism again reducing the dependancy on the lectuer/teacher
Newsgroups: Newsgroups provide students with access to a global population of individual interested in the same subjects. This allows students to ask questions and find out things for themselves.
The resources of the global database can provide students with resources for projects and essays
In terms of Research the internet is also useful for: Distribution of research findings and also; obtaining information from large numbers of people

The main theme here is to reduce the dependance of the student on the lecturer/teacher and empower the student to that he/she is in a position where they can learn for themselves.

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