This column is a continuing feature of Benchmarks intended to present news and information on various aspects of wide area networks. Education Resources on the Internet Educators are amongst the better connected set when you are talking about the Internet. After all, we've got a giant head start. The Internet has grown from its roots as a research and higher education application to the nearly ubiquitous cultural icon of the nineties. This doesn't mean that educators can't still benefit from Internet services.
Education is alive and well and living on line.
There are some high quality information bases that are provided via this technology already and the number are growing. There are so many sources that I can't list them all here, however, I will give you some of my personal favorites and you can explore from there. A good place to start looking is at the On-line Teaching and Learning catalog on the Yahoo Web server . Yahoo is a WWW search service that grew from a project by a couple of Stanford University students to a commercial endeavor to serve the Internet community. It maintains a database of WWW locations that can be searched by topic or title.