Using the internet to enhance course presentation: A help or hindrance to student learning

ABSTRACT By the mid-1990s, the Internet came to be recognized as a powerful business tool. Publications began to emerge on building Websites. Today, the Internet is the world’s fastest growing communication technology. There are currently nearly 500 million Internet users worldwide with the greatest number of users in North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. Internet penetration is well over 60 percent of the population in these areas (Lamb, Hair, McDaniel and Faria 2002)