Providing an ideal platform to support new distributed learning approaches, collaborative learning, and project-based work. ActivPhysics, AWI's first product using the Netscape approach, was introduced at the conference. Scheduled for publication in September of 1996, it is designed for introductory courses in physics. ActivPhysics features over 100 multimedia activities designed by Alan Van Heuvelen of Ohio State University, who has pioneered the development of new active learning methods. Each activity is supported by simulations built as Netscape plug-ins.
Students also have access to specially designed learning tools built in Java.
Its first products are designed for courses in mathematics, physics, statistics, and engineering. AWI was founded in September 1994 as a new start-up business unit within the Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education Publishing Group. Addison Wesley Interactive currently has 17 employees. Additional titles in precalculus, differential equations, statistics, and mechanical engineering will be published during the next 18 months. Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet.