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The Internet’s Significant Impact on Education

As more and more students gained access to the internet in the 1990’s, they soon saw it as a tool for the advancement of learning. Textbooks in some schools were out of date, computer-based courses were often called monotonous, whereas research on the internet moved quickly, was up to date, and included a wide variety of international sources. Students were among the first to realize the impact of the internet on their education—barriers to learning had been removed. Computer-literate teachers, researchers, and scholars saw the opportunity at the same time. Online education was born.

We, the developers of this website, were surprised to learn at a parent-teacher conference that our son, high school class of 2000, would be the one of the first to graduate whose work showed a greater reliance on information gained from the internet than on his textbooks. Fortunately, his progressive teachers and principal saw learning online as an advantage and encouraged his study habits as long as he achieved the course goals.

With nearly 888,631,131 users on the internet in 2005, 13.9% of the world’s population (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm), reliance on this tool has increased exponentially. Social barriers are disappearing as students interact worldwide. As technology...