Web ever-growing generalization and its use in educational settings is impelling the development of high-quality educational hypermedia applications. Hypermedia systems complexity has promoted the use of abstract hypermedia models to capture the most relevant characteristics of these systems. Current models put the stress on hypermedia components and its hyperlinking structure (e.g. Dexter Mode...

The interactional feature of hypermedia that allows high-level student-control is considered as one of the most important advantages that hypermedia provides for learning and teaching. However, high-level student control in hypermedia might not always lead to high-level learning performance. The learner is likely to experience navigation problems such as disorien-tation, loss of concentration, ...

Self-report data and think-aloud data from 37 undergraduates were used to examine the impact of conceptual scaffolds on self-efficacy, monitoring, and planning during learning with a commercial hypermedia environment. Participants, randomly assigned to either the No Scaffolding (NS) or Conceptual Scaffolding (CS) condition, used a hypermedia environment for 30 minutes to learn about the circula...

With the advancement of Web technology, hypermedia learning systems are becoming more widespread in educational settings. Hypermedia learning systems present course content with non-sequential formats, so students are required to develop learning paths by themselves. Yet, empirical evidence indicates that not all students can benefit from hypermedia learning. Research into individual difference...

This thesis addresses several areas in the field of hypermedia research. First the core concepts of hypermedia, nodes, links etc. are examined and in each case existing work is considered along with new concepts in order to form a standardised toolkit. Secondly, the modelling of hypermedia implementation is considered. In this section the development of a modelling scheme is traced and the adva...

In this paper we discuss about the combination of to powerful tools for documenting object oriented frameworks: hypermedia navigational models and hypermedia queries. We also present a way for translating queries performed on top of framework documentation applications, into XML representations, as a way for exchanging framework documentation not only through the web, but through different info...

This thesis describes the design, implementation and use of a software package for hypermedia based learning on mathematical sciences. The software package integrates hypertext, computer-aided exercises, graphics, videos and sound into a hypermedia based learning environment (HMLE). The design and implementation problems of hypermedia based learning environments in mathematics are presentation,...

The notion of browsing has been broadly extended to the general public owing much to it's massive use in domains such as the Internet, and the commerce of user friendly programming tools for hypermedia application development. Recently, models and methods for hypermedia application design have been developed in order to suggest design approaches according to the quality norms commonly accepted ...

Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Applications (EAHA) provide personalized views on the learning content to individual learners. They also offer adaptive sequencing (navigation) over the learning content based on rules that stem from the user model requirements and the instructional strategies. EAHA are gaining the focus of the research community as a means of alleviating a number of user problem...

Hypermedia structuring and navigation requires design methodologies different from those developed for standard information systems. This case study details our successful application of relationship management methodology (RMM), a hypermedia systems analysis and design methodology, to ACM SIGLINK’s LINKBase. LINKBase is a World Wide Web (WWW) application, which dynamically generates WWW pages ...