Improving student achievement by infusing a web-based curriculum into global history

Educators continue to look for instructional practices that will contextualize learning, motivate students, individualize instruction, and increase the number of students attaining mastery levels of achievement. Simultaneously, Internet use has arrived in todays classrooms, which has moved the learning environment beyond the drill and practice use of computers. The creation of a Web-based curriculum has the potential to enable students to have access to the global network of multimedia information while being engaged in selfdirected learning activities.