Economic, organizational and technological changes mandate reconsideration of learning environments.
Ideas lose their protection and are checked against competing ideas and evidence.
A system of Web sites facilitates such a broader perspective beyond the content constraints of an individual class. The presentation of any given substantive class content can be enriched by a wider range of examples, illustrations, applications, alternative interpretations and source materials. The incorporation of the Internet into the Economic Geography program provides and opportunity to instructor and students to experiment and gain experience with hypertextual presentations of materials or projects and to learn how to assemble internally and externally generated documents for most effective learning and project webs. Facilitate communication and activities between disciplines and, as importantly, between campus and community. It is expected that such contacts with the world beyond the classroom facilitate students' exploration of future job opportunities in rapidly changing labor markets and an understanding of macro-structural changes in the economy caused directly or indirectly by information technology developments.