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The educational uses of intermedia

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THIS ESSAY discusses the use of Intermedia as an educational tool. After briefly describing the kinds of educational problems the software was intended to address, we shall survey some of the materials created using Intermedia and compare how the tools have been used in a variety of educational contexts. Based on this survey and our own experience as Intermedia authors and editors, we will offer some conclusions concerning the effectiveness of the Intermedia tools themselves. An annotated bibliography lists relevant IRIS technical papers and publications by Intermedia users.

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    Julie Launhardt

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Julie Launhardt was assistant project manager at the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship from 1989–1991. During that time she co-edited, with Paul Kahn, two Intermedia publications:Exploring the Moon andThe Dickens Web. She also co-authored a paper on hypermedia templates that was presented at the Hypertext ’91 conference. Currently, she is employed by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group in Everett, Washington.

Paul Kahn, director of Brown University’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, has worked with a variety of text processing systems and full-text databases, including the development of Intermedia. His writings on information and computer technology have appeared in leading journals on the subject. Mr. Kahn’s most recent book isFrom Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and Mind’s Machine, published by Academic Press in 1991.

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Launhardt, J., Kahn, P. The educational uses of intermedia. J. Comput. High. Educ. 4, 50–87 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940980

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