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Abstract
The Internet and its related technologies are providing an opportunity to change the way education is delivered. This paper reviews a few experiments underway to test the capacity of this new medium. It reports one quasi-experimental comparison conducted by the author between a conference-call telephony-based real-time distance education course and the same course conducted solely via e-mail and Web pages (the Internet-only students were found to perform slightly better than their telephony-based counterparts). The paper also describes the present Internet interest in the context of past electronic instructional media and shows that the promise of the Internet is more in its ability to bring people into contact with each other than in any dazzling technological traits it may possess. Next, a general Internet-enhanced Education System (IES) model is proposed. Finally, specific issues of IES development and implementation from the author's experience and from the literature are discussed.