Heterogeneous information resources and asynchronous workgroups: creating a focus on information discovery and integration in computer science

The widespread availability of network communication allows the educational community to provide students with skills needed for the pervasive changes in information access and utilization that are occurring. These skills center on developing techniques for learning in an environment which has a broad range of heterogeneous information resources. The university environment we create provides students with opportunities to acquire skills needed for success in a distributed workplace in which electronic tool use and information discovery, organization, and utilization are the principal activities in problem solving