Letters to the Editor Internet Availability and e-Education in North Indian Dental Colleges: A Distant Dream?

It is now well established that computer-aided learning (CAL) offers significant advantages over traditional methods of learning because it allows students to work on their own time and at their own pace—in other words, learning that is “anytime, anywhere.”1 The Internet has been adopted by people all over the world as a primary medium for informa-tion and entertainment. Estimates indicate that the number of sites on the World Wide Web doubles almost every year and that there are more than one billion regular users of the Internet.2 Internet-medi-ated dental education offers numerous advantages like easy access, low cost, minimal paper waste, rapid publication of literature, immense availability of data, flexibility in usage, and many more. Most