IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TEACHING OF SCIENCEFOR THE 21ST-CENTURY

We illustrate the use of World Wide Web technologies for the teaching of general science topics to undergraduate non-science majors. The new ly developed course, Science for the 21st Century, consists of modules each presenting scientific topics of current interest and broad appea l. Network- and computer-based tools are used by instructors to: 1) pr esent multimedia material in lectures; 2) produce and store Web-based modules; 3) communicate notices about the course. Students use compute rs to: 1) access and review lecture material; 2) explore information s ources (located on our server or elsewhere) for term projects and home work assignments; 3) obtain information about the course and communica te with instructors. We describe our experiences with this course and formulate some general conclusions which might be of interest to other s wishing to use network-based resources for teaching.