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Towards a constructivist approach to learning from hypertext

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Iyad AlAgha,

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HT '09: Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1557914.1557926

Published: 29 June 2009 Publication History

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How to help learners construct knowledge from hypertext and plan a navigation process on the Web are important issues in Web based learning. To provide solutions to these issues, this paper presents Knowledge Puzzle, a tool for knowledge construction from the Web. Its main contribution to Web-based learning is the personalization of information structure on the Web to cope with the knowledge structure in the learner's mind. Self-directed learners will be able to adapt the path of instruction on the Web to their way of thinking, regardless of how the Web content is delivered. The way to achieve that is to provide learners with a meta-cognitive tool that enables them to bring knowledge gained from the Web to the surface and visualize what they have in mind. Once we get the learner's viewpoint externalized, it will be converted to a hypermedia layer that will be laid over the Web pages visited by the learner. The attached layer adapts the views of Web pages to the learner's information needs by associating information pieces that are not already linked in hyperspace and attaching the learner's notes to the page content. Finally, a hypertext version of the whole constructed knowledge is produced to enable fast and easy reviewing.

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Towards a constructivist approach to learning from hypertext
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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HT '09: Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

June 2009

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ISBN:9781605584867

DOI:10.1145/1557914

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University of Torino, Italy
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Indiana University, USA

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Hammad ROdeh MKhan Z(2013)Towards A Generic Requirements Model for Hybrid and Cloud-based e-Learning SystemsProceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science - Volume 0210.1109/CloudCom.2013.169(106-111)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CloudCom.2013.169
Atif Y(2010)Competency-based pedagogical wrappingIEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492596(65-70)Online publication date: Apr-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492596

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