Abstract:
Effective communication is the essence of efficient college instruction. Every means available needs to be pursued to maximize understanding between teachers and students. For this to be accomplished we submit that, "talk is not enough." In this era of rapidly advancing technology newly developed instructional resources must be sought out and evaluated just as new subject matter ideas and principles are sought out and evaluated. More effective communication is possible and becomes increasingly necessary with the rapid accumulation of the world's knowledge. In the nearly 3,000 years since the birth of Christ there was at first a slow, but now a rapidly accelerating growth in the accumulation of knowledge. To plot this accumulation on a time line beginning with the birth of Christ, it is estimated that it took 1750 years for the first doubling of world's knowledge to take place. The second doubling occured in the next 150 years. After another 50 years the accumulation of information had doubled once again and now in a scant ten years the total body of world knowIedge has doubled for the fourth time. The amount of scientific information published world wide every day would fill 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. To paraphrase the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, "You have to keep running just to keep up." And yet simply keeping up is not enough.
Keywords:
animal science, auto-tutorial resources
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