The Internet and the "learning by doing" strategy in the educational processes: a case of study

The Internet represents a wonderful opportunity to modify the teaching methods, and to redefine our notions of education. The aim of the paper is to present our teaching project, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), which studies the use of the "Net" and its resources to develop a learning environment. We have involved a classroom (sixteen students, aged 16-17) of a technical institute in Italy (specialisation in information technologies). The work describes some educational and cognitive aspects in the realization of a cooperative hypertext (e.g., the educational and social targets, the modification of the role of the teacher inside the student\´s learning process). In this approach, the role of the students is active inside their learning process