We've met many school teachers taking advantage of our educational materials. Yacht racers out on the Great Lakes have connected via modem and cell phone to collect the latest wind speed and direction from our tables of data from nearby buoys. Prospective graduate students from China have found information and application forms here. Penn State students use the site's many course pages to find information about a particular course they are taking or might want to take. Scores of faculty have created pages about their courses and find them a convenient place to post the syllabus, the lecture schedule, assignments, the authorized versions of lecture notes, images, and directions for extra credit projects.
Students can view and print any of the material at any time of the day or night.
A few faculty have even gone so far as to put so much of each lecture's material on the course Web pages that they bring them to class themselves. They use a computer and projector in the classroom, with the course Web pages taking the place of transparencies on an overhead projector.