Students can participate in interactive projects. It is an ideal way to incorporate distance learning. Educational products from around the globe can be downloaded via internet. Teachers and students feel empowered by the Technology. Students become the managers of information for their own assimilation rather than recipient of it.
Teachers become facilitators and counsellors.
While the single most important problem is the development of high quality software, economic, social and cultural barriers are not less formidable although they very form country to country. Much of the literature about network based flexible learning talks about making vast amounts of world wide information through internet, world wide web available to the learner, but often in completely unstructured ways with no consideration about how to make use of the information. For many learners, student access to information does not lead to learning. Present day network based learning has opened up a new challenge to the education. To make full potential of what is possible with network based learning the need of the hour is to create highly interactive individualized learning materials with full multimedia capabilities, which will make learning more active and enjoyable under the changed environment of network based learning.