Effect of high-level content organizers on hypertext learning

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2047-2055

  Vörös, Zsofia ^a,b   Rouet, Jean Franois ^a   Pléh, Csaba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Content organizer; Hypertext learning; Mental map; Navigation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; CONTENT ORGANIZER; DESIGN APPROACHES; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; HYPERTEXT DOCUMENTS; HYPERTEXT LEARNING; HYPERTEXT STRUCTURE; MENTAL MAPS; NODES AND LINKS; POST TEST; SPATIAL MAPPING;

NAVIGATION;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960244861     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.04.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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