Principles of protein structure

The Internet is becoming an important medium for the delivery of educational materials. However, relatively few institutions are delivering whole courses using this medium. More often, the technologies are used to complement traditional courses, which may be given face-to-face or at a distance (Farrell, 1999). The Department of Crystallography at Birkbeck College, London, has been in the vanguard of the development of 'virtual education&', providing some of the first accredited postgraduate courses in the UK to be offered entirely using the new technologies.