Defining the Challenge

Аннотация

No longer is online learning relegated to the distance-learning realm; that era is over. As it has evolved, the Web has woven itself successfully throughout countless aspects of higher education-with no sign of stopping. Students in even the most traditional, lecture-style courses come in constant contact with the Web, either by choice or by necessity. Net Generation (Net Gen) students e-mail their professors, correspond with fellow students via instant messenger (IM) and text messages, obtain and read course materials online, submit papers into digital drop boxes, and seek information and conduct research on the Internet-almost to the exclusion of the printed word.