Hypermedia Courseware: Structures of Communication and Intelligent Help: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Structures of ... 19-24, 1990: v. 92 (NATO ASI Subseries F) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540558101 ISBN 13: 9783540558101

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1992

Synopsis

This book is based on the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Structures of Com- munication and Intelligent Help for Hypermedia Courseware, which was held at Espinho, Portugal, April 19-24, 1990. The texts included here should not be regarded as untouched proceedings of this meeting, but as the result of the reflections which took place there and which led the authors to revise their texts in that light. The Espinho ARW was itself to some extent the continuation of the ARW on Designing Hypermedia/Hypertext for Learning, held in Germany in 1989 (D. H. Jonassen, H. Mandl (eds.): Designing Hypermedia for Learning. NATO ASI Series F, Vol. 67. Springer 1990). At that meeting an essential conclusion becarne apparent: the importance and interest of hyper- media products as potential pedagogical tools. It was then already predictable that the enormous evolution of hypermedia would lead to its association with multimedia technologies, namely for the production of courseware. Parallel to the improvement of the didactic potential and quality which results from this association, it nevertheless brought along a natural array of difficulties, some old, some new, in the con- ception and use of hypermedia products. Today there is agreement that one of the most promising technological advances for education is represented by the use of text, sound and images based on nonlinear techniques of information handling and searching of hypermedia architectures. The problem of hypermedia is fundamentally one of communication; this leads to an attempt at defining a language for hypermedia.

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Synopsis

This work is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Structures of Communication and Intelligent Help for Hypermedia Courseware, held in Espinho, Portugal, in April 1990. Two main perspectives are apparent from the contributions. One is pragmatic, centered on the improvement of existing hypermedia products, taken as instruments, particularly in the area of professional training in various fields. This involves integrating knowledge from diverse areas to make specific hypermedia products more effective. The papers in this group aim at improving the technical and operational aspects of educational hypermedia scenarios and studying solutions to be applied to hypermedia courseware to facilitate and perfect techniques such as browsing, navigating, or help. The other perspective is more ambitious. It views hypermedia as a powerful aid for learning in general and aims to study the mechanisms of the hypermedia-aided learning process and the conditions and basic principles for its development.

The papers in this group reflect more caution on the immediate applicability of hypermedia and point out the need for research into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the interaction with hypermedia for effective and correct exploitation of hypermedia in future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540558101
• ISBN 13: 9783540558101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 251
• Editor: Oliveira Armando