A review of the literature and a comparative analysis in the context of higher education and adult education Lessons from research on project-based learning in higher education.

A Brief Introduction to the Internet The Internet itself was first brought to life by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969. It was called ARPANet after the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Designed to build a network that would withstand major catastrophe (this was the peak of the Cold War), it soon grew to encompass more and more networks to build the Internet. Then, in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN developed the idea of the World Wide Web, including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). This gave us what we now know to be the Internet. Mozilla Firefox One of the most popular web browsers, and in fact the default web browser in Fedora, is Mozilla Firefox (see Figure 5.1). Built on a solid code base that is derived from the original Mozilla Suite, which itself comes from Netscape, Firefox offers a breath of fresh air to surfing the Internet, compared to the dominant Internet Explorer (which is only available on Windows). Firefox offers a secure browsing environment, coupled by the ability to extend the browsing experience by using plug-ins and extensions, which we cover briefly later in this section ...»