What can educational hypertext do? What can you do with hypertext in education ?

To begin with, you can make connections -- and thereby

• reconfgure place and space of learning

• provide information on-demand

• encourage sophisticated multicausal thinking

• create multiple contexts [Examples of Transparent Language and the PoCo and Victorian websites]

• create collaborative work, learning, and writing environments

• enable multidisciplinary thinking

• create community -- course -- memory

• share resources

• enable efficient resuse of materials (Victorian Web Books -- hypertext versions of print books

• allow learners with different abilities and different stages in their academic development to use many of the same materials.

• take into account distant learners

• reconfigure time of learning

• invent new ways of writing
  • develop new forms of rhetoric and stylistics
  • develop new forms of academic discourse, fiction, and poetry

Last updated: 10 October 2002