The Internet enables students to reach well beyond the physical confines of their classrooms andgain access to virtually unlimited quantities of information on the topics or events they are discussing in their classrooms.The use of the Internet for school assignments also encourages students to give free rein to their curiosity andstrengthens their research and investigative skills.IT offers especially valuable educational opportunities for poor people in developing countries. Students and otherresidents of poor countries are increasingly using the Internet—often in community Internet centers—to gain access toinformation and communicate via e-mail.
Doctors, scientists, and other professionals, for example, can achieve cheap orfree access to journals and other professional publications that are too expensive to afford in hard-copy versions.Government aid agencies, foundations, and private firms sponsor numerous distance education programs designed toteach skills to a wide variety of developing country professionals, government officials, engineers, scientists, andbusinesspeople. Internet or satellite connections enable students from developing countries to take courses offered inforeign institutions. In these and other ways, technology-enabled educational programs can help strengthen the peoplewho will be called upon to provide leadership in developing countries in a wide variety of social welfare, economic, andpolitical fields.
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