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A hypermedia system was introduced into an undergraduate biology curriculum in order to investigate the patterns of students' interaction with, and attitudes to such a system, both to develop the interface of the system itself, and to provide objective means of describing its usage in a real learning situation. This was seen as a prerequisite to any evaluation of actual learning outcomes. The paper describes the development process which involved not only the evolution of the system itself, but the construction and implementation of assessment tools. The use of these tools enabled the authors to draw a number of conclusions about the patterns of interaction that students demonstrated when given various learning tasks to carry out. Interactions were seen to be driven primarily by the task, rather than by any individual preferences on the part of the users. It is suggested that this may have important implications for the knowledge that users gain from hypermedia systems. |
