Explains WebQuests, Internet-based lessons that integrate technology into the classrooms without the risks of exposing students to inappropriate Web sites. Examples are given of WebQuests that students created in various grade levels, as well as an assignment for teacher education students to design a WebQuest. (LRW)

Dental professionals (n=23) completed online continuing education modules and pre/post surveys. Participants felt the modules were comprehensive, clear, convenient, and easy to navigate. Posttest scores showed significant increases in knowledge. Technical and formatting problems were identified. (SK)

Discusses how the Internet not only changes the way training can be delivered, it changes the way companies decide who gets trained to do what. Looks at what Web-based training has done for a number of companies and discusses pitfalls and roadblocks. (JOW)

Describes a GTE Project that provides technology equipment and assistance in computer literacy for adult learners. Indicates that the training sessions benefited them in the use of the reading software, Internet, Power Point, web importing programs, and use of electronic portfolio. Reports that all trainees felt better prepared to participate…

Internet inservice training was offered to 150 county Extension agents representing six southeastern states, who used Web-based materials, an online pretest/posttest, and listserv discussions. Questionnaire responses indicated that most agents were very receptive to this method. Pretest/posttest scores show that the training resulted in a…

The Information Society is affecting organizations and the people who work in them. European projects resulted in a change model emphasizing the role of communication structures within organizations and the ways in which information and communications technologies interact with them. (JOW)

Computers are being used to conduct large-scale graduate placement tests, professional certification exams, vocational interest and aptitude assessments, workplace skills tests, and even classroom quizzes. Although convenient and easier to administer, computer tests are expensive and could discriminate against those with less computer literacy.…

Finds computer-mediated environments pose a special challenge to legal and cultural protections and that these environments are unprecedented in the way commercially valuable information can be generated in their very use. Contends current discussions about privacy in computer-mediated environments have overlooked the potential of common law and…

Belongs to a series of papers examining how scholars understand and explain the Internet. Argues that the Internet should be understood as the first instance of a global communication system, displacing a national system (railroad, telegraph, television) of the 19th and 20th centuries. Maintains that such transformations involve complex alteration…

Discusses the importance of having students pose their own questions and write problems. Proposes a subject related to the heart, blood, and the life-giving potential of blood. Provides related internet sites from which teachers can get information. (ASK)

The use of Usenet newsgroups in a computing and information systems classroom at the University of Brighton showed how Internet-based learning systems can encourage rapid evolution so that resources adapt to learners' needs. Although not always used as intended, and including off-topic distractions, newsgroups did accommodate learning styles and…

Child care and auto body students in 11th and 12th grades (n=279) completed two separate administrations of occupational competency tests: paper followed by paper, paper followed by Internet-based, Internet-paper, or Internet-Internet. No statistically significant differences appeared. Scores on the second administration were higher for the…

In contrast to technological predecessors, the Internet affords a prospective student with unlimited and uncontrolled access to formal and informal information about any institution. Article provides four vignettes that illustrate what a prospective student can find on the Internet. Discusses the implications of the Internet on the college…

With new technology, and with students continuing to push the limits of computer usage, higher education administrators are being forced to take a stand on issues regarding misuse of campus computer resources and facilities. Argues that education is the key to helping others understand it is possible to misuse the Internet. (MKA)

Because intellectual property law and remedy are set and enforced by individual nations, in the online world, the victim of unlicensed copying has a choice of jurisdiction in enforcing rights. This article defines intellectual property rights and infringement, discusses legislation, and assesses the extent to which right owners can seek redress.…