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Experiences migrating microcosm learning materials

Published: 09 August 2004 Publication History

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Microcosm was an open hypertext system that evolved in the early 1990s, before the advent of the Web. Apart from its success as a research platform it was widely used for presenting interactive educational materials. Since the commercial version of the product ceased to be supported it became necessary for users to migrate their educational materials, generally to the Web. However, the SToMP consortium chose to implement their own environment copying parts of the functionality of Microcosm in order to achieve their educational objectives. This paper examines the motivations of this work in order to understand whether there were features that were available in Microcosm that were not replicated in current Web based solutions.

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HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
August 2004
284 pages
ISBN:1581138482
DOI:10.1145/1012807
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  2. hypertext for education
  3. microcosm

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HT04: 15th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
August 9 - 13, 2004
CA, Santa Cruz, USA

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