ABSTRACT
When I wrote Learning; Teaching and Researching on the internet in 1998 a very significant proportion of the undergraduate students that I taught, and many academic staff, were relatively unfamiliar with the internet, the Web, and the files and interactive forums that were publicly accessible to them over their own internet-linked PCs, or educational networks. AccordinGly, I included separate chapters detailing the structure of the internet and how to use Web browsers. This has now become largely unnecessary. Nearly all new undergraduate students have had experience of using the internet from schools, and many of these have also had internet access at home. University academic staffs, through a variety of institutional programmes, as well as through targeted grants provided by higher educational funding councils, are equally familiar with the rudiments of internet structure and the use of Web browsers.
