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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:36:00 CST
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- Several years ago, in my first attempt to write about hypertext, I proposed
- that hypertext was a natural environment (though I don't think I used that
- word) for the liberal arts and for university education generally: my argument
- was that we want our students to discover the complex interconnections both
- within specific disciplines and among them, and that hypertext is designed for
- precisely such purposes. (BTW, I'm answering the long unsigned posting from
- WPWP@PITTVM). That's also the premise, I think, underlying Brown University's
- Intermedia, which so far as I know remains the most ambitious attempt to date
- to implement hypertext as a multidisciplinary environment for learning at a
- university. George Landow, in _Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary
- Critical Theory and Technology_ (Johns Hopkins UP, 1992), is quite good on
- this subject; his stuff is more fully worked out than mine was (I had never
- used HT in a classroom when I wrote that first paper). The citation for my
- paper, if anyone's interested, is "Hypertext and the Teaching of Writing," in
- _Text, Context, and HyperText_, ed. Edwrd Barrett (Cambridge: MIT Press,
- 1988).
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- John Slatin
- UT Austin
-