The World Wide Web: a vehicle to develop interactive learning and teaching applications

The paper is about how to use the World Wide Web (Web) for education. After a brief review of this area, the main issues regarding the use of Web for education are discussed. Based on this discussion, a design, a preliminary implementation of a prototype, the experience gained from this work and future work are described and a few conclusions drawn. Experience from the trial of the system shows that the Web is a cost‐effective technology to facilitate the development of educational applications across the Internet.