It is currently no more surprising to see students seated on the stairs or desperately trying to access the class room. Further, a growing part of these students are working part-time to pay the tuition fees, giving them less time to attend classes. This limited space and time situation forces universities to try to find new solutions. During the academic year 1996-1997, we made an attempt to deal with this concern.
Observations show rather encouraging responses from students.
The CD-ROM contains the course material on adolescence psychology corresponding to a one semester course of about 28 teaching hours. The students access the material using Netscape. We chose to use Netscape for the following main reasons. First, even for students with little or no computer literacy, Netscape is quite easy to use. Second, the course material is made of lots of texts and Netscape has been conceived from the beginning to display texts.