Multimedia and Megachange: New Roles for

The use of multimedia strikes at the very heart of traditional teaching and learning methods, and is changing the way educators think about the whole process of teaching and learning. Multimedia and Megachange spurs ideas for the use of interactive technology to revolutionize teaching and learning. It describes and analyzes issues and trends that are currently setting a research and development agenda for educators. Contributors to this volume explore all fronts on which computer technology are changing the educational process: concept and theory research application design Multimedia and Megachange opens up the exciting world of how technology is dramatically changing how teachers teach and students learn. It also highlights spin-off changes for classroom management, greater sources of information, and improved evaluation and grading techniques.

Introduction
Multimedia and Megachange	p. 1
The Parable of the Expensive Ballpoint Pen (Revisited): Implications for Hypermedia	p. 3
The Foundations of Hypermedia: Concepts and History	p. 9
Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Culture of Schooling	p. 21
The Comparative Effects of BASIC Programming versus HyperCard Programming on Problem Solving, Computer Anxiety, and Performance	p. 27
Hypermedia in Teacher Education: Development of Course Support Materials	p. 47
Decisions in Inferential Statistics with HyperCard: Design and Field Test	p. 69
Cooperative Hypermedia: The Marriage of Collaborative Writing and Mediated Environments	p. 79
A Study of the Effectiveness of Computer-Based Simulations in Teaching Computer Architecture	p. 125
A Comparison of the Language Features of BASIC and HyperCard	p. 141
Novice Linking in Hypermedia-Based Instructional Systems	p. 155
Using Hypermedia to Assist Language Minority Learners in Achieving Academic Success	p. 171
Promoting Learning Through Hypermedia: Local versus Global Interfaces	p. 189
The Structural Communication Methodology as a Means of Teaching George Orwell's Animal Farm: Paper and Computer-Based Instruction	p. 199
Learning by Designing Hypermedia Documents	p. 227
Enhancing a Multicultural Program Through HyperText Links	p. 255
The Top Five Reasons Not to Use Multimedia	p. 281
Enhancing Hypermedia Through the Use of Templates	p. 285
Hypermedia Assisted Instruction and Second Language Learning: A Semantic-Network-Based Approach	p. 293
An Example of Software Development and Authoring with HyperCard: Creating an Interactive Video Simulation for Teaching Basic Principles of Classroom Management to Pre-Service Teachers	p. 313
Integrating Alternative Input Devices and Hypermedia for Use by Exceptional Individuals	p. 339
The Effects of Visible Link-Types on Learning in the Hypertext Environment: An Empirical Study	p. 353
Efforts to Improve Computer-Based Instruction: The Role of Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Construction in Hypermedia Systems	p. 371
The Relationship of Learning, Behavior, and Cognitive Style in Hypermedia-Based Instruction: Implications for Design of HBI	p. 401
Introduction	p. 401
Research Questions	p. 405
Method	p. 407
Results and Discussion	p. 415
Conclusions	p. 418
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