Lesson 15: Understanding Hypermedia

Hypermedia is nothing but multimedia, but this time packaged as educational computer software where information is presented and student activities are in a virtual learning environment. Most Educational IT application is hypermedia and these include:

      

●         Tutorial Software Packages

●         Knowledge Webpage’s

●         Simulation Instructional Games

●         Learning Project Management and Others

       

The presentation of information-learning activities in hypermedia is said to be sequenced in a non-linear manner, meaning that the learner may follow his path of activities thus providing an environment of learner autonomy and thinking skills. This fact makes it therefore important to understand hypermedia in the educational context in order to ensure their successful integration in the teaching-learning process.

The learner also has a wide range of navigation routes such as by working on concepts he is already familiar with. They may even follow a linear or logical path, even if the previous activity is half-completed. He may explore other sections opting to return or complete the previous activity.

In a world where everything seems being dependent with technology you can never expect something that is done without the use of it. Students before exerts lots of effort in order to complete a project or task. They go to libraries, ask resource persons took samples personally and so many possible ways. Well, that was before when technology is hard to find. The students of this generation is far beyond compare, they sit in front of their computers and in a blink of an eye, and HOOLLAA everything you need is right there in front you without even having a single sweat.

Technology itself is never bad, it is always up to someone how it is being utilized. It okay to use technology but make sure that you are not being governed by it. It can help and aid human living especially in studies, it is no longer important if you have all the books as long as you have your computer and an access to the internet.

It is challenging for the teacher but it must be a challenged accepted to make every students well-rounded about technology not as a tool in learning but as something that can help them in their future when they graduated because even cashiers nowadays uses computer. We must always cope with the pace of this very fast-changing world.