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CHAPTER X COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING AND USE OF THE INTERNET Mark Huckvale University College London, United Kingdom Chris Bowerman University of Sunderland, United Kingdom Anders Eriksson Umeå University, Sweden Mike Rosner University of Malta, Malta Mark Tatham University of Essex, United Kingdom Maria Wolters University of Bonn, Germany Computer-Aided Learning and Use of the Internet 1 Introduction 1.1 Aims of the Working Group The working group in Computer-Aided Learning and Use of the Internet aims: q to bring together information about resources and tools for computer- aided learning (CAL) in the field q to promote the use of the Internet to disseminate information and teaching materials q to make suggestions of areas of resource development to potential authors q to encourage the generation of a comprehensive set of high quality resources q to create an infrastructure for the management of resources. 1.2 First and second year activities Our main activities in the first year were concerned with a review of current practice. We first requested an expression of interest in the area through a message sent on a number of electronic mailing lists. We had over 70 responses from individuals interested in contributing to our survey of computer-based methods, or interested in hearing about the outcome of our survey [URL1]. We set up a Web-based database of teaching resources, to which individuals could contribute through a forms interface accessible by Web browser. The contents of the database are regularly converted to HTML so that it may be viewed from anywhere on the Internet [URL2]. We made the decision to focus on resources explicitly designed for educational purposes