Aspects of consideration when designing educational knowledge based hypermedia systems

• Authors: Narin Mayiwar
• Venue: KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
• Year: 2005

In the last decades, there has been extensive use of hypermedia systems in education as a tool for enhancing learning and teaching strategies. But the result of researches shows that little research effort has been directed towards making the presentation and navigation of a hypermedia system more knowledge-based, i.e. driven by knowledge about the information contents [2]. One approach to achieve this is to extend the hypermedia system with techniques from knowledge-based systems. In a hypermedia system chunks of information, stored in nodes, are presented in a non-linear way, similar to the way the human brain process information. Therefore hypermedia systems can be seen as naturally augmenting human abilities to access and process information. Development of a knowledge based hypermedia system for learning is not just about designing a few screens and specifying their relationship. It is also about pedagogical support for learning. Therefore, in this paper some aspects that are important to consider when designing knowledge based hypermedia systems for learning have been addressed.