The Global Classroom: Using the Web as an Interactive Learning Environment

The Global Classroom is a “classroom without walls” that supports interaction between students and a “visiting” scholar in the synchronous, collaborative use of common software packages including Mathematica, Maple and various commonly used software packages via the WWW. Control of a software package opened on one machine can be passed to a person at another machine in another room, another city, or even another country. As such, the Global Classroom provides a vital, “face-to-face” link between and among students and the instructor in a distance learning class together with a vast number of other facilities for teaching and learning, and educational opportunities in general…