This paper discusses several flaws in learning, associated with Internet-based education at present. It also suggests an optimal method for conducting Internet-based education and how to accomplish it. However, almost all of this material is weak in several critical features. This paper discusses these flaws, from a learning viewpoint. They reflect inadequate learning paradigms and developmental strategies, rather than problems with the Internet itself. We will then review a type of learning material for the Internet that can overcome these flaws, modeled after a tutorial approach to learning. The origin of these problems comes partially from the fact that almost all online learning today is based on imitating what happens in the classroom, trying to recreate this environment in distance education. Yet, there are strong signs that the classroom, and the educational philosophy supporting it, is insufficient for twenty-first century students. It is a very old approach to delivering student learning. Mostly it comes today from large lecture sections, sometimes with discussion sessions and electronic support. Grades in most classes show that many students do not learn, or learn only incompletely. I will not discuss this approach in detail. This existing system in schools, training institutes and universities is not an a dequate beginning point for learning on the Internet, leading to the flaws mentioned next. In other papers, and in a forthcoming book, referenced at the end of this paper, I explain in more detail how these problems can be avoided, to create more effective tutorial distance learning material for the Internet for all students at reasonable expense.
['Alfred Bork']
What is needed for effective learning on the Internet