Link: http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/105623
Resume:
“By virtue of its enabling rapid, non-linear access to multiple forms of information, hypermedia technology is considered a major advance in the development of educational tools to enhance learning and a massive literature on the use of hypermedia in education has emerged”
Reasons to use technology: (a) hypermedia enables nonlinear access to a vast amount of information; (Nielsen, 1995) (b) users can explore information on demand (Collier, 1987); (c) student control of their own learning (Barret, 1988); (d) capture student attention (Jonassen, 1989); (e) highly visual (Delany & Gilbert, 1991).
Important characteristics of hypermedia: access, freedom and collaboration (Marchionini and Crane, 1994)