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Purpose of the Catalog This Catalog is addressed both to university professors who are seeking books for course adoption and to authors and publishers of online textbooks. The offerings highlighted in the Catalog are Internet-accessible electronic publications that promote active student inquiry through the use of new information technologies. These works, then, are explicitly designed to take students well beyond the confines of hard copy. The Online Advantage New technologies have made it possible for course work packages to take advantage of the Internet's multidimensionality by including such features as direct links to other information sources, supplementary streaming audio files and interactive elements of several kinds (e.g., discussion forums, online practice exam applications and "chat room" software). Internet delivery not only facilitates the creation of environments for learning and interaction that are both powerful and user-friendly. It also offers flexibility, both asynchronously and in real time. These innovations are producing a publishing revolution, as new tools have enabled authors to become their own publishers of high-quality texts, and as both authors and established publishing houses have begun to radically modify their conception of what a "textbook" should be. As a result, instructors now can choose from a broader range of teaching materials, and students can acquire more effective resources for learning than ever before. A Textbook Marketplace If the potential for vastly expanded selection of leading-edge educational content is to be effectively realized, the decentralizing tendency of new information technologies must be supported through networks that can bring authors/publishers and adopters together. We've created the ConnecText Catalog in response to this need. Listings in the Connectext Catalog have been furnished by authors and publishers.
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