Plant Biology in the Post-Gutenberg Era (Everything You Wanted to Know and More on the World Wide Web)

A Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach in an Undergraduate Plant Physiology Class1

“…Laboratories or lectures may include computerized simulations of life processes (Jaffe and Lynch, 1989;Hutchings et al, 1994;Hall, 1996;Beneski and Waber, 1997), many tutorials have been written (Blakely, 1988;Dewhurst et al, 1989;van Geloven, 1994), some publishing companies now offer CD-ROM study guides to accompany their textbooks, and many instructors use a World Wide Web site to supplement their courses because the Web is a vast and rapidly growing source of information (Somerville et al, 1997).…”