The New Challenge of Learning

The World Wide Web offers us a new way of hunting for information. If we compare Internet to an ocean, “surfingi is perhaps the right word to use for describing this hunting process. The'poweri of the Web lies in its friendly interface and in its potential to provide users with high impact documents, pictures, animation and sound. The hypertext nature of the Web allows us to create an on-going set of links which refer to and connect sites all over the world. Researchers and students can use this tool not only for gathering information, but also for publishing their works and “peeringi with the works of others. The challenge, then, is to generate new interest around getting information. Students seem to have more motivations in learning whilst experimenting. And the Web is a good place to start