It also provided a place in which material could always be accessed by students. Anderson is not the only professor who has decided to replace traditional text with technology-based text. Willigan has developed a list of websites that contain demographic data on societies. Provided with their own in-class computers, Willigan will guide the students through Web resources in lectures and will assign Internet homework to complete outside class. Students will search government, educational, nonprofit and commercial sites worldwide.
Potential text is virtually endless.
Instead, the class will rely solely on Web resources. The savings to the students at the bookstore are only a secondary advantage, according to Willigan. By the time they publish a book the information is out of date compared to Web resources. In order for Willigan to teach this kind of class he must put in hours of preparation finding suitable material on the Web that he will compile into a class curriculum. In the past, Willigan has used the Internet extensively in classes, although he has not gone so far as to replace the text.