This paper presents a history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, describes benefits and disadvantages of the Web for instructional programs, makes recommendations for Web-based instructional design, and provides technical information for Web-based learning. A glossary of terms is also included. (PEN)

Describes the relationship between instructional technology and organization performance and examines the critical shifts in emphasis in the relationship over the past 20 years. Methodology-driven, subject-matter-driven, and "real world"-driven training systems are discussed. Two figures accompany the text. (Author/JL)

Universities arose because a supportive and protective environment conducive to face-to-face learning, scholarship, and debate was needed. Predictions that various technologies, including television, teaching machines, and Internet-based instruction and distance learning, would replace universities have not been realized. For 800 years, nothing…