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The Web

The Web NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY New Venue for Adult Education John Flelschman he need to expand the use of The browsers can, in addition, access files by ETP distance learning technologies to (file transfer protocol), gopher and an ever-increasing reach adult basic education learners range of other methods. On top of these, if the server has been well documented. Although has search capabilities, the browsers will permit many notable efforts have been searches of documents and databases. developed, most approaches have not offered the level The documents that the browsers display are hyper- of interactivity necessary for effective distance learn- text documents. Hypertext is text with pointers to other ing. But recently, a new technology has emerged that text. The browsers let you deal with the pointers in a may change our ability to offer highly interactive transparent way - select the pointer, and you are pre- sented with the text that is pointed to. instruction at locations and times convenient for adult Hypermedia is a superset of hypertext - it is any learners. The technology that offers this potential is the World Wide Web, a worldwide system of electroni- medium with pointers to other media. This means cally http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

The Web

Feischman, John
Adult Learning , Volume 8 (1): 2 – Sep 1, 1996
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SAGE
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© 1996 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
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2162-4070
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10.1177/104515959600800109
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NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY New Venue for Adult Education John Flelschman he need to expand the use of The browsers can, in addition, access files by ETP distance learning technologies to (file transfer protocol), gopher and an ever-increasing reach adult basic education learners range of other methods. On top of these, if the server has been well documented. Although has search capabilities, the browsers will permit many notable efforts have been searches of documents and databases. developed, most approaches have not offered the level The documents that the browsers display are hyper- of interactivity necessary for effective distance learn- text documents. Hypertext is text with pointers to other ing. But recently, a new technology has emerged that text. The browsers let you deal with the pointers in a may change our ability to offer highly interactive transparent way - select the pointer, and you are pre- sented with the text that is pointed to. instruction at locations and times convenient for adult Hypermedia is a superset of hypertext - it is any learners. The technology that offers this potential is the World Wide Web, a worldwide system of electroni- medium with pointers to other media. This means cally

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Published: Sep 1, 1996

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