Creating a Web site for teaching in the 21st century

The World Wide Web is based on a technology called hypermedia, because it can handle graphics and sounds as well as text. What is so remarkable about WWW is that it connects pieces of information from all around the world, on different machines, in different databases seamlessly. By creating a home page on WWW, faculty can bring unique cultural and scholarly perspectives and add a more complex and comparative base of knowledge to teaching and research. Another feature of WWW is that the network is ever expanding and the faculty, as agents of change, should be in the forefront of internationalizing American higher education besides building knowledge and expertise in dealing with other countries and cultures.