Virtual geographies and the use of the Internet for learning and teaching geography in higher education

Despite the plethora of teaching materials that are available on the Intern et to enhance geography higher education, few assessments of the effectiven ess of these materials exist, This symposium collects papers that provide g uidelines for using the Internet effectively for teaching geography. Studen ts must learn how to use the Internet effectively to promote learning; inst ructors need to lean? how to use the Internet effectively to promote good p ractice ill higher education; instructors need to learn how to use the Inte rnet effectively to enhance learning; and higher educators need to learn ho w to use the Internet effectively not only in traditional classroom setting s, but in new, non-traditional settings such as those used for distance lea rning. These papers provide some assessment of these various aspects of usi ng the Internet for reaching geography in higher education.