Web-Based Resources for Teaching

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Author(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 23
Source title: Designing Instruction for the Traditional, Adult, and Distance Learner: A New Engine for Technology-Based Teaching
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-824-6.ch009

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Whether the instructor prefers handouts, study guides, and workbooks or overheads, 35mm slides, and projected images, the fact remains that the Internet is much too valuable a resource to dismiss as a passing fad. Yet, if the Internet is to reach its full potential as a teaching and learning strategy, educators must come to know and understand not only how to find these resources but how to create them as well. Over the past 10 years since web browsers first became popular, a rivalry emerged among the leading competitors to become the single provider of web browsers in the industry. Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla/ Firefox, and others remain in an on-going battle for supremacy of the web browsing public. Unfortunately, users of the Internet often become victims as companies compete – and such is the case with browsers and authoring tools. In the beginning, browsers did not come bundled with authoring tools – there simply were no authoring tools. Developers were hostage to the html programming language and its string of tags, commands, and scripts. One of the first packages to offer WYSIWYG authoring was Netscape’s Composer followed closely by Internet Explorer’s Front Page. Composer was included free-of-charge by Netscape. Front Page began as a costly add-on, but was eventually packaged free along with its browser to chip away at Netscape’s dominance in the marketplace. Simultaneously, other vendors (Adobe’s Dreamweaver being the most prominent) were delivering their own proprietary products for designing web pages at a considerable cost to the user.

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