February 26, 1999

With Web Skills -- and Now Tenure -- a Professor Promotes Improved Teaching

By LISA GUERNSEY

Randy Bass was taking a risk, and he knew it.

As an assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, Mr. Bass had redesigned one of his American-literature courses to incorporate the use of hypertext and the Internet. He had also devised a massive World-Wide Web site, called Crossroads, to enable instructors to share on-line teaching materials and stories of how they had used them. He wanted to explore

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