Increasingly, professors have begun to use websites as legitimate sources of educational material and present websites, such as, as reliable sources of historical and/or international dance footage. In Barnard College's Dance Program, the Internet is utilized in a variety of ways to enhance the learning experience. For dance education, this traditional method is even further rooted in the learning process one would be hard-pressed to imagine a formal dance class in which a teacher is not physically demonstrating, in one form or another, to her students. The American education rests on an oral tradition - teacher-to-student verbal communication is crucial to the system, as the norm of both parties occupying the same physical space. As personal lives are further occupied by this new technology, the Internet has naturally also spread to the realm of education, where teachers have begun to see the Internet as a convenient, effective, and adaptable teaching tool for students both young and older. The twentieth century could hardly be characterized without a reference to the Internet, a global system of interconnected computers that serve billions of users worldwide.
