ABSTRACT
Technological innovation has necessarily kept pace with the expansion of readily accessible information. To be sure, the information explosion is directly attributable in large part to technological innovation. New technologies allow us to deal with more massive and disparate sources of information than ever before, and to do so more easily than we were able to deal with much smaller, more localized information just a few years ago. Hypermedia is a combination of text, sound, still pictures, graphics, and motion video arranged nonlinearly in linked nodes so that a user can go directly from one node to any other. It should not be confused with multimedia, which combines text, sound, still pictures, graphics, and motion video but is unconcerned with the way nodes are linked together. Students in two graduate level “Introduction to Educational Computing” courses were chosen as subjects for several reasons.
