Hypertext and pluralism: from lineal to non-lineal thinking

  • Authors:

  • Wiliam O. Beeman;Kenneth T. Anderson;Gail Bader;James Larkin;Anne P. McClard;Patrick McQuillan;Mark Shields

  • Affiliations:

  • Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island;Office of Program Analysis, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, P.O. Box 1946, Providence, Rhode Island

  • Venue:
  • HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

One goal of American and Northern European higher education is to promote acquisition of a pluralistic cognitive style, which has as an important property— non-lineality. This paper investigates the effects of using of an advanced hypertext/hypermedia system, Intermedia, to develop instructional materials for two university courses in English and Biology intended to promote acquisition of non-lineal thinking. Use of Intermedia is shown to produce significant learning effects, which are somewhat more pronounced for persons involved in developing materials than for students using the system.