Periodically, I use class time to visit a few of these sites, and the student feedback on these class presentations has been very positive. The web can save time and increase convenience. One advantage of posting syllabi and other educational materials on the web is that students have 24-hr access to them. By publishing this information on the web, instructors avoid having to answer the same questions throughout the academic term. By using the web to deliver grade information, individualized performance feedback can be delivered to students without redirecting the instructor's focus from teaching to administrative tasks.
Web pages can reach a larger and more diverse audience than is otherwise possible.
Take, for instance, the case of journal articles. By reproducing an article on the web, however, readership can be dramatically increased. I learned this lesson firsthand in September of 1996, when I created a web version of an article on affirmative action . Even now, three years after the article was first published in paper form, the electronic version continues to get more than 20 visits per day.