Hypermedia

“The limits to learning is

mostly self-imposed”

Colin Rose
Hypertext
It is beyond normal text and refers to a non-sequential, nonlinear
method for organizing and displaying text.

Nonlinear knowledge organization

Hypertext
There are marked words (as italic or underlined or bold or colorful)
that called as links.

Main idea under designing hypertext as learning material is that

learners reach the whole knowledge that they need by consuming
little time.
Multimedia
Multimedia is integration of more than one medium into some form of
communication.

Most commonly, it refers to the integration of media such as text,

sound, graphics, animation, video, spatial modeling into a computer
system.
Hypermedia
Hypermedia is simply the marriage of multimedia and hypertext. In
other words, hypermedia is a type of hypertext with photos, images,
sound, animated images, video etc.

The most pervasive characteristics of hypermedia is the node which

consists of chunks of text, pictures, video clips and so on.
 nonlinear

Has attribute

Hypermedia concept map Hypertext

Derived Composed of
from
links nodes
Composed of
Hypermedia
Has
example Information Kioks
Structures

World Wide
Web sites
Multimedia

includes
graphics

audio video Video disks

photographs
How to use hypermedia in the
classroom
1. Portal (learning from computer)

2. Mindtool (learning with computer)

Portal
Portals are user-friendly, customizable hypermedia. The distinctive
features of the portal is reachibility from one point to many points
that users need

In other words, there is one host that guides and contains all the
information, interest and needs of the users.
Educational Portal
It contains

 Education administration system

 Measurement and evaluation, planning and administration tools

 Communication tools among the school, students, instructor and

parents.

 Exercises, testing materials, experiments, research facilities, user

specific study activities etc.
Educational Portal
Instructor can use e-portal as a platform for their course sites and its
related components such as

Putting lecture notes, syllabi, grades

Creating forum discussions

Assigning homework,

Announcing news related to course,

Any other facilities

Features of an effective
Educational Portal
 Portal homepage should not be complex.

 Nodes and links should be clear, understandable and meaningful.

 Students do not live feeling of the lost.

 Site should contain every information that students need in a

organized way.
Features of an effective
Educational Portal
 Portal sides should be user-friendly

e.g. Maximum six type of color should be used in one site

Background color should be chosen gray or pastel color

Video, image, sound should be used so that students

understand content better,

Video or sound materials can be watched or listened more

than one time.
Examples of Educational
Portal
Hypermedia as Mindtool
Hypermedia construction

It is an example of “knowledge as design”, which focuses on one of

teachers and students as collaborators in the knowledge
construction process.

Designing and developing web sites has become the preferred mode
of hypermedia construction.
Example of Hypermedia
Example 2

http://www.eastgate.com/SandLoves/Welcome.html
Hypermedia production
 Accuracy of information in nodes

 Representation of information in nodes

 Quality of media representation

 Links are meaningful and descriptive.

Hypermedia production
 Screen design

 Nodes are organized in meaningful informative structures

 Purpose of hypermedia knowledge base clear to users.