"Learning" is not a general thing:

• Learning Types: Attitudes, Factual Information, Concepts, Reasoning, Procedure Learning, Problem solving, Learning Strategies,...
• Degrees: beginners vs. advanced, easy vs. difficult, personal preferences
• All major learning paradigms have a point and a sound theoretical foundation
  (Constructivism, Instructionalism, Socio-culturalism etc.)

Educational paradigms

• all insist on some form of guidance or scaffolding
• require some form of structuring

Common features:

• Reading is NOT learning
  => On must "do" to learn
• ... and Internet is NOT interactive (per se)
  => What counts is activity
  (triggered by the system and/or by the task)
• Most people need guidance to achieve instructional goals
  => External conditioning (teaching, monitoring)

Virtual Campus software:

must be flexible to accommodate
various learning and teaching paradigms

Hypertext ??

• There is no empirical evidence that

Hypertext (HTML) really helps learning

• Note: a good book is also a Hypertext

Is individual learning pace important ??

• People who do different things can't talk to each other
• cost is very high and benefits are minor

NO: design must start with the learner activity !

• There can be hypertext and accommodations for learning style or pace
• You can give flexible assignments (good for motivation)