Pedagogical Challenges for the World Wide Web

After locating this article within an extrasomatic information processing framework, the author asserts that the use of the Web poses pedagogical challenges. Some of these perceived challenges are presented and discussed. The author also proposes that the debate surrounding the use of the Web in university teaching should centre around learning and not technical issues. The learning issues and challenges discussed in this article include learning approaches, using the technical features of the Web to learning advantage, assessment, learning to learn and change. The article concludes that the challenges discussed are not new and are mostly the same challenges that have been present in universities for a long time.