Web-teaching : A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for
the World Wide Web Innovations in Science Education and
Technology

Web-teaching : A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for
the World Wide Web Innovations in Science Education and
Technology

Web-teaching : A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for
the World Wide Web Innovations in Science Education and
Technology

The mandate to expand and improve science education for the 21st century is global and strong. Implementing these changes, however, is very complicated given that science education is dynamic, continually incorporating new ideas, practices, and procedures. Lacking clear paths for improvement, we can and should learn from the results of all types of science education, traditional as well as experimental. Thus, successful reform of science education requires careful orchestration of a number of factors. Technological developments, organizational issues, and teacher preparation and enhancement, as well as advances in the scientific disciplines themselves, must all be taken into account. The current prospects look bright given national reform movements such as the National Academy of Science's "Standards for Science Education" and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's "Benchmarks"; the backing of science education leadership; and recent developments, including the Internet and new educational software. Further, we have a world-wide citizenry more alert to the need for quality science education for all students, not just those who will become scientists. If we can isolate and combine such factors appropriately, we will have levers for science education reform. The books in this series deal in depth with these factors, these potential levers for science education reform.

Brooks, David W.