Hypertext is often used to link text to materials traditionally contained in footnotes and annotations but may also include

much more. According to Bolter it is electronic text, the first text in which the elements of meaning, of structure, and of visual display are basically not stable. He means that electronic texts are subject to rearrangement and reordering by the user beyond the traditional linear organization of books. Well the development of hypertext has been associated most nearly with a constructivist model of learning and aspect of schema theory. However, the behaviorist model might use hypertexts special features only to link text with explanations, tests and answers. On the other hand the constructivist perhaps consider the same features and use them to encourage learners to evaluate the structure and the sequence of their own learning.

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Well, comparing to hypertext,

MULTIMEDIA

hypermedia refers to the same link as hypertext, however instead of simply linking text to text, hypermedia involves linking various media, like sound, images, animations, and/or video. A video of a language-learning opportunity, such as a shopping excursion, might be linked to an animation that shows the same exchanges simplified, omitting the distracting elements around the interactions between the shopper and the sales clerk.

To continue multimedia is a term that has essential subsumed hypermedia, on the other hand the original difference was that where hypermedia might only make use of two types of media like: (text +sound or text +photographs) multimedia tends to feature several media types including text, images, sound, video and /or animations. A type of program more likely to match Thompson et als interpretation of hypermedia would be a software reference tool such as Microsofts discontinued encyclopedia Encarta. As a matter of fact multimedia is used to encompass the non-linear organization of text in hypertext and the non-linear and multiple information formats referred to hypermedia.

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hypertext is not just flat text with highlights or paragraphs omitted during display, but rather, the text is hyper-structured with hyperlinks or other structures embedded inside a page, including hidden search words, to control the display and connection with other pages or hypertext nodes.

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Hypermedia is a style of building systems for organizing, structuring and accessing information around a network of multimedia nodes connected together by links Transition from hypertext to hypermedia took place with the Second Generation Systems. These systems were quite similar in concept with first generation hypertext systems, but they were workstation and PC based, with more sophisticated graphics interfaces and support to other forms of information such as graphics, sound, animation, video.

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Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed, or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content.