Effect of varied elaborated hypertext strategies in facilitating students' achievement of different learning objectives.

From: International Journal of Instructional Media | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Hypertext learning materials have been employed as major components for designing and implementing educational and training learning environments (Dillon & Gabbard, 1998). This fact can be validated by the increasing number of online courseware offerings in school settings and corporate environments as well as by the number of articles and journals in hypertext research literature. While creating hypertext learning materials is becoming part of the mainstream in the implementation of educational media in most of educational settings, the design and development of ...

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