Abstract
Print has been the dominant medium in distance learning courses, but such courses now present opportunities to give students access to a rich media environment that not only includes well-organised teaching material prepared for them, but also large resources that they can organise for themselves. All they need is access to a computer and a telephone line. The Wold Wide Web offers a vast amount of information that students can access, but they must devise their own methods of study and, most importantly, they must develop critical and selective skills. This paper discusses the way in which study skills appropriate to media-rich distance learning can be embedded in Science courses and the particular problems in doing this for life-long learners studying at home.
