Work and personal commitments often creates many demands on our time. Busy lifestyles demand a flexible approach to study, a way of catering to the individual needs of all students.

Learning is not as simple as reading a book. Concepts often have to be examined, discussed, and digested before they can be understood.

WebCT brings the dynamics of a classroom environment to the World Wide Web. It allows teachers and students to interact in a virtual classroom in much the same way as in a standard classroom. The difference is that it can be done from any place in the world, at any time and with the resources of the Internet as support.

WebCT courses can be developed as fully interactive classrooms where you may be involved in group presentations. Some topics may not require a lot of discussion and may be presented as a structured set of notes. It depends on the learning material, your lecturer and the best way to deliver the lesson.

WebCT is used to bring a set of learning support tools that will be common to each course (note the terminology of course and module are interchanged in these notes).

As you progress through each module, the tools provided by WebCT will become more familiar and more comfortable to use.