KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND CONSTRUCTION IN HYPERMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

Hypermedia information systems, because of their inherent qualities of nonlinearity and associative linking, offer the potential of facilitating enhanced knowledge representation and construction for users. These capabilities will be more fully realized if hypermedia information systems are developed and implemented based on constructivist learning theory. This paper examines the qualities of hypermedia systems that enable them to facilitate learning, discusses the background of current learning theories, and provides a brief view of a possible hypermedia system based on constructivist learning principles that could be developed through the use of intelligent autonomous agents.