Art education has the ability to provide students with a means for understanding the history and expressions of cultures and civilizations, enabling them to examine the values of their own culture and to appreciate the achievements of other cultures. Traditionally, providing conducive learning environments for students to learn about art has meant providing qualified teachers, art rooms, instructional materials, curricula, programs, administrative support, and financial resources. Increasingly, it also means providing students in visual art courses with access to computer technology. We live in an era which has been and will continue to be profoundly influenced by advances in digital technology. These advances are having a dramatic impact in the field of education, where a growing number of educators are exploring ways of taking advantage of interactive multimedia and telecommunications technologies in order to expand the repertoire of pedagogical practice and enhance learning.
Computers are increasingly useful for instruction in art history, art criticism, and aesthetics.
Such programs offer educators a powerful means of enriching the experiences of students in art education courses. In the field of education, the concept of School is shifting from the traditional model of a building with centralized resources to a future model of a location-independent collection of educational resources and services. Using browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web users can view files with text, graphics, photographs, sound, and video located on computers around the world. Web files are linked to other Web files using hyperlinks, which can be text or graphics with the addresses of other Web files attached to them in the underlying scripting language. By simply clicking on the hyperlinks on the computer screen, Web users can navigate between files and computers on the Web.