Students as WWW surfers-a brief look at students and the WWW

More and more academic administrators are encouraging faculty to put their courses on the World Wide Web (WWW), and yet few studies have explored student´s access to and uses of the WWW. We report on selected data from a 1996 survey study of student use of the WWW and selected data from an assessment of student use of WWW based multimedia. In 1996, only 10% of the 544 students studied reported having 28800 baud or faster modems and in the 1997 study only 31% of the 250 students reported having 28800 baud or faster modems. Ninety-two percent of the students who owned a computer (n=147) used it to access the WWW compared to 72% of the 1996 students who owned a computer (n=128). Personal uses followed by academic uses were the leading uses of the WWW