ABSTRACT
This chapter helps you to step from the glossy slogans of hypermedia to its practical implications in realistic learning settings. It provides an overview of the potential impact of flexible information environments on human thinking and imagination. This chapter
discusses the important links between information resources, hypermedia and learning
describes three metaphors that underlie instructional uses of hypermedia and multimedia, and
looks over the shoulder of a learner who browses through an electronic encyclopedia and concludes with a discussion about the necessary change in learning for the use of hypermedia environments.
