An experiment with WWW interactive learning in university education

The World Wide Web coupled with user friendly Web browsers now provide access to multimedia Web pages in universally accepted formats that can be accessed world wide easily via inexpensive desktop computers. Everyone appears to agree that this technology will revolutionize how students, faculty, researchers, and the public access and use information. Consequently university educators are now enjoying, for the ®rst time in history, a new way to customize and share their unique approaches to teaching and information resources in the form of text, graphics, and soundÐto students both on and o€ campus and, with concern for the future, across time. In this paper we discuss our exploration with the use of interactive learning on the Web in an Introduction to C Programming Course taught in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Cleveland State University, and compare results with the same course taught a previous semester using no interactive WWW learning. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.