The emergence of the Internet and related networks such as the World Wide
Web has had and will increasingly have radical effect on the transformation
of education and training in all sectors. The impact is already significant in all
developed countries, and the great majority of developing countries are
despite difficulties and fears seeking to take part in the emerging global
educational community.
The Web offers a worldwide forum in which to teach courses that can be
dynamically updated in ways never before possible. Each student has an
enormous range of resources available, free from limitations of time and
space. There remains considerable work to be done concerning searching and
sifting techniques within these resources for learners and teachers alike.
These resources are reconfiguring the ways in which students learn, and new
approaches to networked learning are evolving.
The trans-cultural nature of the Web also creates problems of legislative
and public control, with fears that local culture can be threatened by the
international culture of developed countries. While the use of the Internet and the
World Wide Web in open and distance learning is predominantly represented
within higher education, it is also beginning to be used in schools.
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