What's All This Hype about Hypertext?: Teaching Literature with George P. Landow's

Smith, Jonathan

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ERIC Number: EJ569413

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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What's All This Hype about Hypertext?: Teaching Literature with George P. Landow's "The Dickens Web."

Smith, Jonathan

Computers and the Humanities, v30 n2 p121-29 1996

Describes the use of George P. Landow's hypertext, "The Dickens Web," in an advanced undergraduate literature class and analyzes its practical and theoretical implications. Debates some of Landow's claims about the ease with which learning from hypertext occurs and examines difficulties encountered in using hypertext in the classroom. (DSK)

Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Instructional Innovation, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Victorian Literature, World Wide Web

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue titled "Computers and Teaching Literature."