Today, students routinely make use of the Internet, campus Web pages, electronic books and journals, electronic reserves, and other technology to aid their scholarly pursuits and to communicate with faculty, staff, and off-campus individuals. More and more faculty are incorporating the Internet into their course curriculum. The rise of the Internet has enabled teaching and learning to take place in a virtual classroom, scholars to form electronic communities, and students to discover a library that spans the globe. The College is committed to graduating every student with a functioning literacy in technology. To that end, many resources are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Students can connect to the network from just about anywhere on campus.
Mount Holyoke is totally wired. Totally Wired Entire campus is fully networked with fiber-optic cable. Each teaching faculty member and student is provided special network space for course materials. An increasing number of faculty members, about 20 percent, now request that their course reserve materials be scanned and mounted on the electronic reserve Web page. MHC is also actively exploring new ways to use the Web and other advances in technology to enhance instruction.