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The fields of education, schooling and training ask specific benefits of hypermedia and multimedia. This text offers practical approaches to transform these media into learning tools. Steps include the migration from expository to exploratory learning strategies.
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How to Use this BookThe new members of the media family: CD ROMs, WWW, Hypertext, Hypermedia,and Multimedia have already conquered their place in popular journals, library indices and TV programs. However in the scope of Education, Training and Instruction they need a fundamental characterisation so that we as professionals can benefit from their potential and impact. This book provides you with definitions, its relations with new information carriers like Compact Discs, and an overview of application areas adjacent to teaching and learning. This book supports teachers, curriculum- and courseware designers who like to take benefit from the new spectrum of hypermedia and multimedia tools. Besides seeing the examples we give in Section 2 and Section 3, it is essential to orient yourself in the rationale behind hypermedia, exploratory learning, knowledge representation etc. That's why Sections 1, 4 and 5 have been included. In principle we are convinced that reading the book in its current order is quite effective for readers who need both practical and ideational support. If you are ultimately interested in practical examples with HyperCard, that can be applied in your current teaching practice, it might be good to go directly to Section 2 and 3. It might elicit you to come back to Section 1 and 4 later, in order to help you to transfer the hypermedia approach to adjacent topics in your practice like cooperative writing, concept mapping or new ways of assessing learning results. If you are primarily interested in the more generic ideas behind hypermedia in education, it would be better to start reading Section 1 and Section 4. They should be sufficient to start you imagination to create your own hypermedia sessions in your classroom. Reading Section 2 and 3 is then a comparison between your own and our interpretation of the hypermedia potential.
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