Abstract:
An increasing number of institutions and universities are using hypermedia systems for
educational purposes. Unfortunately many of the systems available, with the WWW
being a special source of concern, do not support advanced tools for navigation, study
and collaboration.
In this paper I suggest a new tool, called Semantic Spaces for this purpose and
discuss its implementation into the Hyper-G hypermedia system. Following a general
discussion on the potential of hypermedia systems for education, section 2 describes
some of the the issues that arise of the use of hypermedia systems, especially spatial
navigation (section 2.1) and organization of the information gathered while browsing.
In section 3 the concept of semantic spaces is introduced as a medium for the
organization of a users understanding of the contents of the hypermedia system. The
implementation of these ideas using the hypermedia system Hyper-G is discussed in
section 4.