This enhances instruction, saving students precious time in seeking sources of course-related information. Programs from publishers are available to professors who then make these available to students via the homepage. Formed in 1997, WGU is a competency-based, virtual university that seeks to deliver education with the aid of the Internet. Western Governors University and other alternative educational models are worthy of our investigation. One goal of such outreach is to reach vast numbers of potential students who otherwise might not be in position to access traditional university education.
Corporations seem eager to support such efforts.
At Texas Tech University, with the assistance and support of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation set out to provide students with the latest technological advantages possible. Through the leadership of the chair of the department, Tech's faculty was required to attend workshops designed to introduce them to WESI through the use of homepage technology. We now know that the World Wide Web provides a way of linking a variety of resources on computers, which are connected to the Internet. Each Web page has an individual Internet address that identifies it. The home page is the first page of a collection of Web-related pages.