What are research-based, pedagogically sound ways to use Web-packaged courseware to impact student learning? This paper deals with those issues, and provides seven different, pedagogical sound ways to use such software in support of higher education. Increasingly, institutions of higher education are incorporating online Web-packaged courseware as part of their educational delivery system. A number of instructional dilemmas have been confronted in institutes of higher education lately. How can instruction be conducted effectively, particularly with the other demands that face today’s students? As the baby boomlet hits eighteen years old, how will campuses provide enough seating for the rising population? How can students learn research and production skills that can be applied to a variety of careers? How will academia prepare students to be successful in an environment where 85% of jobs will involve technology? Standardized online instruction is one solution; it enables teacher preparation faculty to optimize class time, and it ensures consistency across course sections. This method facilitates distance learning as well as offers increased interaction – potentially. Students can “learn anytime, anywhere.” Online-enhanced instruction can “collapse” time and space. However, care must be taken to make good use of its features in designing and implementing courses. The
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