The archive of slides is then accessible to students subsequent to the lecture. WWW as an interactive learning tool One of the limitations of WWW as an interactive learning tool is HTML, which of itself, cannot handle sophisticated interactive applications. A number of people have been working on ways around this limitation to provide interactivity through integration of WWW with other applications. Provides for a range of environments from text-based to graphical. Has mechanisms for supporting fill-in forms.
Browsers can act as remote display interfaces for hardware.
This has the advantage of running on any client platform without the need for viewer installations. In this case, a file is run by clicking on a link, e.g. to an Asymetrix Toolbook file. Interactions can be built using any appropriate technique, tool, template, etc. The browser will need to be configured to recognise the file type and launch the appropriate application. CGI CGI, the Common Gateway Interface , is an interface for running external programs, or gateways , under an information server, such as a Web server.