Knowledge at the Crossroads: Some Alternative Futures of Hypertext Learning Environments.
Nicholas Constantine Burbules, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Thomas A. Callister, JR., Whitman College, Washington.
Review
This article is rather lengthy, about twenty-one pages. However, despite the length, it has been a really interesting reading. In this article, Burbules and Callister, explained hypertext and its functions in details. Some of the areas they touched on are traditional text and hypertext, analogies of hypertext, writing and reading hypertext and hypertext and the learner.
Reading this article helps me in understanding the fundamentals of hypertext. From there, Burbules and Callister guide us step by step in exploring the relationships between the authors and the readers. They also discussed how the design of hypertext may shaped the impressions of the readers, listing the advantages and disadvantages.
Under the section "Educational Challenges", Burbules and Callister listed out ways which hypertext can be used in education. They also named the possibility that hypertext may help students to become more critical users. Teachers, through hypertext, can provide guidance; together with students, focus more on the learning processes of interpreting and organizing information.
This article explores many different areas of hypertext. It provides many useful information which I can use for my essay and for own learning. Furthermore, the article is well structured and organised. Therefore it allows easy references just by looking through the headlines.
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