WWW In Support Of Engineering Education In Australia

: The World Wide Web covers an enormous volume of electronically stored information on wide ranging subjects. Web offers phenomenal opportunities for acquiring knowledge in any field, and has already introduced radical changes in the direction of information dissemination worldwide. This paper provides a brief overview of traditional Internet resources and tools, and the potential benefit of Web technology to enhance teaching and learning practices at tertiary engineering schools. It summarizes major educational undertakings such as universities Web sites as well as public domain and government funded engineering clearinghouses. A Web site that was set up for pedagogical purposes is briefly introduced to further highlight, among other things, the crucial role of Web in fostering regional co-operation among professional engineering educators. INTRODUCTION The World Wide Web (WWW or Web) may simply be described as a global network of documents or portion of documents linked together. Th..