Education 2000 - Review goes on Line

On the initiative of the Ministry of Education and National Culture, the Review Education 2000 which is published jointly by the Education Division and the Faculty of Education is now available online. The Internet address is:

http://www.ilands.com/education 2000

The website is accessible 24 hours a day for consultation by both local teachers and lecturing staff and also by international academics.

The publication's web site has been submitted and is in the process of being listed with several Internet directories and search engines. In the next few days, the same web site will be submitted and eventually included in numerous pages featuring links to Maltese web sites.

A number of features were added to provide a better service to the academic audience of the online journal. These include:

* a navigation bar to enhance the readability of Education 2000

* a feedback form to aid interaction with the editorial board

* colourful presentations to entice the readers to delve deeper in the issues put forward

* the ability to get a personal copy of Education 2000 in electronic format on your own computer

This last feature was included after carrying out extensive research on similar international publications where readers have to slowly save individual pages in order to keep a copy of the published papers. This only wastes their time, and hinders interactivity. So the Education 2000's pages were grouped and compressed to have a faster delivery to the readers' computers from where they can be browsed, analysed and studied at the readers' own pace. This provides an important enhancement to an already content-rich and feature-packed electronic publication