A presentation to the Canadian Tax Education and Research: Looking to the 21st Century conference held at Queen's University July 25-27, 1996

What can you do?

1. Post announcements
2. Post copies of your course outlines and other handouts to the WWW site. Students (and others!) can access the WWW site to read and/or download to their own computer the information posted there.
3. Students can e-mail you directly from the WWW site to pose questions.
4. Post relevant questions and your responses in a "frequently asked questions" (FAQ) section of the site for all to view and download.
5. Access other sites (see OTHER RESOURCES)
6. Post exams and exam answers

1. The WWW site allows increased and more effective and efficient communication between students and their instructors.
   • Students can access the WWW from off-campus locations and at non-campus hours.
   • Reduces line-ups at your office.
2. Cross-referencing of materials (e.g. farm losses in both chapter 4 and 10).
3. Ease of updating for changes in law (see chapter 10 changes on tax credits)
4. Ability to use the WWW may be expected in the same way that ability to use phones, calculators is expected today.

1. Setting up a WWW page for each course, and cross-referencing that page to the Faculty of Management page on the WWW.
2. Translating course outlines and selected handouts into HTML. There are some WORD (Perfect) to HTML translators available. Some work would still be required to cross-reference documents.
3. Installing AIR for Windows on the Student Computer Lab and connecting the lab computers to the internet.

1. Tax instructors at different sites could exchange course outlines, overheads, etc. and view different approaches to presenting the material.
2. Eventually textbooks might be on-line rather than in hard copy.
   • Real-time up-dating and corrections.
   • Cross-referencing (including problems and solutions).

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