Designing Hypermedia For Learning (nato Asi Series (closed) / Nato Asi Subseries F: (closed))

This most unusual book results from the NATO Advanced Research Work­ shop, "Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning", held in Rottenburg am Neckar, FRO, from July 3-8, 1989. The idea for the workshop resulted from the burgeoning interest in hypertext combined with the frustrating lack of literature on leaming applications for hypertext. There was little evidence in 1988 that hypertext could successfully support learning out­ comes. A few projects were investigating hypertext for learning, but few conclusions were available and little if any advice on how to design hyper­ text for learning applications was available. Could hypertext support learning objectives? What mental processing requirements are unique to learning outcomes? How would the processing requirements of learning outcomes interact with unique user processing requirements of browsing and constructing hypertext? Should hypertext information bases be restruc­ tured to accommodate learning outcomes? Should the user interface be manipulated in order to support the task functionality of learning outcomes? Does the hypertext structure reflect the intellectual requirements of learning outcomes? What kinds of learning-oriented hypertext systems were being developed and what kinds of assumptions were these systems making? These and other questions demonstrated the need for this workshop. The workshop included presentations, hardware demonstrations, sharing and browsing of hypertexts, and much discussion about all of the above. These were the experiences that you, the reader of this book, unfortunately did not experience. Front Matter....Pages I-XXV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Problems and Issues in Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning....Pages 3-25 Hypertext for Learning....Pages 27-37 Popular Fallacies about Hypertext....Pages 39-59 Models of Hypertext Structure and Learning....Pages 61-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Macro-Operations for Hypertext Construction....Pages 71-95 Concepts as Hypertext Nodes: The Ability to Learn While Navigating Through Hypertext Nets....Pages 97-115 Graph Computation as an Orientation Device in Extended and Cyclic Hypertext Networks....Pages 117-134 Discussion: Formal and Informal Learning with Hypermedia....Pages 135-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Evaluating Hypertext Usability....Pages 147-168 Hypertexts as an Interface for Learners: Some Human Factors Issues....Pages 169-184 Designing the Human-Computer Interface to Hypermedia Applications....Pages 185-195 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Hypermedia and Instruction: Where is the Match?....Pages 199-225 Learning About Learning From Hypertext....Pages 227-250 Psychopedagogic Aspects of Hypermedia Courseware....Pages 251-262 From Instructional Text to Instructional Hypertext: An Experiment....Pages 263-276 Journal Articles as Learning Resource: What Can Hypertext Offer?....Pages 277-290 Hypertext/hypermedia-like Environments and Language Learning....Pages 291-310 Collaboration in Hypermedia Environments....Pages 311-317 Front Matter....Pages 319-319 The Hypertext/Hypermedia Solution— But What Exactly is the Problem?....Pages 321-354 Evaluating Hypermedia-Based Learning....Pages 355-373 Front Matter....Pages 375-375 Some Examples of Hypertext’s Applications....Pages 377-386 Hyperinformation Requirements for an Integrated Authoring/Learning Environment....Pages 387-405 Elaborating Arguments: Writing, Learning, and Reasoning in a Hypertext Based Environment for Authoring....Pages 407-437 Alexandria: A Learning Resources Management Architecture....Pages 439-457 Back Matter....Pages 459-461 This most unusual book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) held in Rottenburg am Neckar, FRG, in July 1989, within the new special programme on Advanced Educational Technology. The book is an annotated collection of papers defining hypermedia in several contexts and discussing how to design the information structure, the user interface and the learning model. Hypermedia development is compared with instructional design processes, and development assumptions and processes for different hypermedia environments are discussed. The book is more than a compilation of the papers presented at the workshop. It is a print-on-paper implementation of the workshop. The workshop included presentations, hardware demonstrations, sharing and browsing of hypertexts, and much discussion of a wide range of questions about hypertext. The authors and editors have tried in the format of this book to share some of the experiences of the workshop with the reader. Thus the book exhibits some of the characteristics of hypermedia. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning, held in Rottenburg/Neckar, FRG, July 3-8, 1989