Annotations: The key to collaborative teaching and learning on the
Internet
Abstract
Annotations are a new and exciting way of structuring information and interaction
between people on the World Wide Web. They can be used to relate a piece of text to an
arbitrary position in a HTML document and this paper shows how they can be used in
distance education on the Internet to create a new form of collaborative teaching and
learning. In this scheme students and teachers have access to the collective knowledge
of all past and present students and teachers. The scheme also allows students to
take part in the development of courses and this creates courses which are more
flexible and responsive to their needs.
