Choosing to investigate the WWW for various teaching activities arose because it seemed to overcome some of the existing restrictions in both the computer and non computer based activity. Issues such as maintaining material and making it as accessible as possible were perhaps the main perceived benefits the WWW addressed. What follows in a description of the major educational services provided by our faculty WWW server. These services are available to anyone on the Internet. This obviously includes our students who may be using the computer facilities within the University or using their own computers at home and connecting to the Internet through the University modem dialin facility or some other Internet provider.
Lecture notes A number of our lecturers have experimented with lecture notes.
Note that the material therefore may not be static, the reader should therefore consider such lectures a resource to be read online instead of simply printing it. One of the major differences between the WWW and earlier Internet technologies is its highly graphical nature. The Architecture department has a number of lectures which are predominantly slide based. Getting access to slide collections is always problematic and even more difficult is the linking of textural material to slides. There is a project underway at the moment to scan and document a slide collection of hundreds of slides for one of our history courses.