Web-based instruction encompasses the integrated design and delivery of instructional resources via the world wide web and promotes student engagement with text-based, hypermedia, multimedia, and collaborative rsources for the purposes of teaching and learning. (Quelle: Web-Based Instruction - A Guide For Libraries (Third Edition), Susan Sharpless Smith, 2010, ISBN: 978-0838910566, What is included in web-based instruction?, Seite 4 ff.)