Web Teaching Spotlights

The instructional use of the Web seems to be gathering momentum as industry, institutions, and individuals devote more time and resources to developing Web sites specifically for use in education. In the spotlights section we draw your attention to a new and noteworthy developments that might be of interest to educators who are using the Web to teach.

MERLOT

One criticism of the Web is that there is no quality control. MERLOT is trying to change that by providing a directory of Web teaching sites that have been evaluated using the scholarly model of peer-review.