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ERIC Number: EJ548393
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
The World Wide Web: A Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning?
Owston, Ronald D.
Educational Researcher, v26 n2 p27-33 Mar 1997
Addresses the usefulness of the World Wide Web in education by answering the following questions: does it make learning more accessible; does it promote improved learning; and does it accomplish the first two while containing or reducing the per unit costs of education? Examples are provided of what individuals and institutions are doing on the Web. (GR)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Retrieval, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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