Student Attitudes toward Internet Courses: A Longitudinal Study

Educational institutions are exploring the use of the Internet and faculties are integrating Internet resources into their classes. For most courses, the first step is the use of the Internet to deliver traditional course materials such as the course syllabus, the course schedule, handout materials, and lecture slides. Much of this effort will be guided not only by faculty access to and interest in technology but also by the attitudes of students toward this type of course delivery system. This article reports on a three-year longitudinal survey to assess student attitudes toward the use of the Internet to deliver course materials and that this has not changed from 1999 to 2002. However, there has been a shift in student feelings about specific elements dealing with the use of the Internet.