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Hypertext for training <sum05 1 7>
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500 year-old The basic formula for most classroom activities comes from
approach Thomas Aquinas, who stood at the front and lectured
============ -- because Thomas was the only one in the room who had books.
And five centuries later, this model is still in use.
But, instead of 30 aspiring scholars acquiring knowledge
from rapt concentration, most teaching is closer to:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Event Students listening Students daydreaming │
│ Recess bell 30 0 │
│ Discussion 12 18 │
│ Explanations 5 25 │
│ Lecture 3 27 │
│ Question answered 1 29 │
│ Business meeting 0 30 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Why this diminished capacity to learn from others? Unlike,
Why people are their information-starved contemporaries of 500 years ago,
less teachable today's students are over-fed and burdened by a the
============== never-ending assault of information -- and with little
<link46 1 21> training to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Limit the People want you to "show me the answer and let me integrate it
information myself." Solutions are often more desired than knowledge.
=========== Hypertext, because of its expedience, very easily transfers
knowledge to people who are information over-loaded.
Basic concept The fundamental principle in organizing hypertext systems
============= is to make access to any desired information intuitively
obvious and obtainable within less than a dozen keystrokes.
<link04> The relationships between information units must be very
clear so that the users naturally acquire the structure of
the system of information (which is knowledge).
Benefits Advantages of this approach are:
======== ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ - desired (clean) information with the fat removed │
<link43 1 21> │ - hypertext that is easy and obvious to use │
│ - users successful in solving information needs │
│ - a system of knowledge acquired through use │
│ - reduced need for and expenses of training │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Low interest Typically, with classroom knowledge for college students:
in knowledge
============ 5% are interested in the knowledge itself
20% are interested in the grade instead of the knowledge
<link48 2 8> 75% are interested in anything but the knowledge
These ratios are no different with most military and
industrial training programs. So, what can hypertext do
to reduce training costs?
What to do? Hypertext converts users who have passive attitudes toward
=========== information into active browsers of systems of knowledge.
In one sense, hypertext "menuizes" everything to
constantly prompt (or prod) users at every point into
making active choices that lead to information.
For that reason, regardless of initial attitudes toward
learning, hypertext formats entice users into acquiring
knowledge. That makes hypertext a most effective
substitute for portions of most training.
References: ---------------------------------------------
Hypertext, use in advertising <link45 1 7>
Hypertext, craftsmanship and <link49>
Hypertext, reasons for reading <link44 2 1>