Supporting fieldwork using the Internet

In the United Kingdom, a number of recent Information Technology projects have been sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Councils to promote efficiency and quality in education. This article describes a project in which the focus is on the development of tools: methods and software to help teachers with limited time and technical ability to produce course support materials for laboratory and field classes. Tools under development to support fieldwork include Web forms interfaces for producing location maps, virtual reality models of field locations and panoramas with sound commentary. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.