Educational Hypermedia Courseware Structure Analysis

• Main Authors: Lin, Biing-Kuen, 林炳坤
• Other Authors: Chuen-Tsai Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1995
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76817408598601434522

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊科學學系 === 84 === Educational hypermedia provides flexible access to instructionalinformation and supports convenient learning styles.However, what it provides is a non-sequential information presentationwhich is different from traditional instructional systems.Thus, there are many problems resulted from educational hypermedia systems.In an ideal educational hypermedia system, in addition to supportingabundant courseware, it should provide courseware analytical tools,knowledge construction assistance tools, and navigation guidance tools.Furthermore, in an educational hypermedia environment, courseware structure and learning behavior are the main research topics.In this thesis, we provide several systematic analytical models in order to approach an ideal educational hypermedia system.To identify courseware structures, we adopt four graph algorithms for educational hypermedia analysis: MinimumCut-Set, Strongly Connected Components, Cut Vertex, and Dynamic Analysis.By using them, we are able to construct a hierarchical knowledge space,to analyze a courseware network to see whether it is well- structured, and to design a hierarchical map to help users learning in a hypermedia environment.To understand learning behavior, we provide two quantitative measures:Extensional Hyper Degree and Hyper Distance.According to the computational results, we are able to better understand students'' navigation activities in the educational environment.