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Title

Halflives, a mystory: writing hypertext to learn

Author(s)

Gye, Lisa

Abstract

In what ways do electronic media, and, in particular, online media or hypertext, have the potential to change the ways in which we acquire and generate knowledge? How does writing hypertextually transform the learner’s experience of the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in contrast to the kinds of learning that takes place when students engage with the proprietary systems used for online course delivery in universities. While online learning systems are believed by many in higher education to be a viable alternative to face to face teaching, many proprietary delivery systems neglect the role of the student as learner, emphasising instead the student as a consumer of course materials. Halflives: A Mystory (http://halflives.adc.rmit.edu.au) was and continues to be a research project that has enabled me to consider these questions from the perspective of a learner engaged in constructing knowledge hypertextually.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Source

Fibreculture Journal, no. 2 (2003)

Publication year

2003

FOR Code(s)

2001 Communication and Media Studies;  200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies

Keyword(s)

Electronic media;  Hypertext;  Online learning

Publisher

Fibreculture Network

ISSN

1449-1443

Publisher URL

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/issue2_gye.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2003 Lisa Gye. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/). Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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