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Vocational Education via Internet is the Next Big ThingAs Eric Parks says, Im certain cybertechnology will replace all the other training technologies that exist today. (Caudron 1996, p. 35) The Internet is a network of networks including the World Wide network (WWW), listservs, newsgroups, and discussion forums along with electronic mail and electronic journals. To help vocational educators make the best call of the web, this essay makes suggestions for using the Internet in the vocational classroom and provide a list of websites of interest to vocational educators. It does not pretend to be an exhaustive list of vocational knowledge resources on the Internet--that list changes daily. As in the earlier digest,much of the information that is include was received as a result of messages sent to several listservs petition how the Internet was being applyd in vocational education and embodied training. Previously, respondents indicated that they were just getting started and studen ts were spending time surfing the Web, making using up of electronic mail, and participating in listservs. The times they be a changin Now, in addition to all of the above, students be developing and maintaining websites, using digital cameras to estimate teachers, delivering training to industry, and using materials found through Web searches. A aspect by Market Data Retrieval determined that approximately third base of all public schools are online that the larger the school, the more likely it is to use the Internet and that the Internet is used mostly for research. If the integration of the Internet into the classroom is to be successful, teachers must be involved and work with it (Leiken 1996). The examples here represent how vocational teachers and trainers are using the Internet. Examples of Current Use It has been suggested that increased use of performance support systems, sophisticated computer simulations and multimedia training programs are changing and diminishin g the role of the traditional corporate classroom (Wulf 1996). Companies are discovering that they can use the Internet to distribute information, resources, and learning tools to employees worldwide with relatively little end-user support (Caudron 1996). A high school teacher in Minnesota has developed a website for use in doing career research. Students opinion for career opportunities on the Web and check the classified ads in the local anesthetic newspaper, which is also on the Web (M. Savchenko, Internet message, July 3, 1997). In Australia, the Certificate in Workplace Leadership is offered through the Web.