Turning the Web into a learning tool

The Web does not support effective user interaction with information, which plays a key-role in learning process; the lack of efficient support to navigation, the basic state-less http protocol, the author-centered approach to information content and structure are important obstacles to the vision of the web as learning tool. Nevertheless, it is still possible to develop Web-based architectures that can overcome these limits. In this paper, the author reports on a specific web-based instruction system that provides for effective interaction mechanisms.