Chemical Education Journal (CEJ), Vol. 4, No. 1/Registration No. 4-9/Received February 9, 2000.
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Abstract: The recent evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) has introduced new Internet-based learning and teaching materials for chemical education. Such rapid change in the Internet makes us to expect the innovation of the traditional style in education. The geographical restriction is no longer a serious problem, and hence, teachers and students far apart from one another can communicate without difficulty. In addition to this effectiveness, a lot of fascinating teaching and learning materials on the WWW also arouse our interest in chemistry. Under such circumstances, we would like to propose new paradigm for chemical education in the virtual society to realize the project Virtual Chemical Education, which has been proposed by Prof. Takeuchi at the meeting of the CTC during the 39th IUPAC General Assembly in 1997. In the virtual society, distributed agents, such as (human or automated) teachers, students and learning and teaching materials, will be properly located on the Internet in order to act in harmony with one another.
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