The 'Net' in Education: some operative examples

摘要

The Internet has become an invaluable resource in teaching and learning activities both within academic and non academic organisations. It can be used to conduct research, seek out information for course preparation, deliver courses and facilitate communication between students and teaching staff. The aim of this paper is to present two different experiences which involve the Internet in educational paths in high school and university. In first experience, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), we have studied the use of the Internet and its resources to develop a new learning environment. We have involved a classroom (sixteen students, aged 16-17) of a technical institute in Italy (specialisation in Information Technologies). The project has been divided in six different phases: the knowledge of the Internet, the research in the Internet, the access to the FTP, the didactics with the Internet, the communication using the "Net", and the creation of a cooperative hypertext dedicated to the Bonaventura Cavalieri (an Italian mathematician). Second experience, named "Cybermath", is an attempt to build some hypermedia modules to introduce the Mathematics. It has been developed at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (University of Italian Switzerland), Switzerland.