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Information technology is essential in meeting two primary needs that students have.
First, they need a well-defined core curriculum. With the explosive growth of basic science knowledge, there is now far more knowledge than can possibly be mastered by the student or taught by the faculty. Second, students need opportunities to explore the limits, or the edge, of knowledge. They need to be able both find the limits and use scientific thinking to assess the validity of what they find. Information tec hnology can be utilized to create the core curricum by combining vast electronic collections of information with powerful tools to codify knowledge, validate it, link it, and make it searchable.