Experiences Migrating Microcosm Learning Materials
Davis, HC and Bacon, RA (2004) Experiences Migrating Microcosm Learning Materials. In, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext 2004, Santa Cruz, ACM Press.
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Description/Abstract
Microcosm was an open hypertext system that evolved in the early 1990s, before the advent of the Web. Apart from its success as a research platform it was widely used for presenting interactive educational materials. Since the commercial version of the product ceased to be supported it became necessary for users to migrate their educational materials, generally to the Web. However, the SToMP consortium chose to implement their own environment copying parts of the functionality of Microcosm in order to achieve their educational objectives. This paper examines the motivations of this work in order to understand whether there were features that were available in Microcosm that were not replicated in current Web based solutions.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Event Dates: August 2004 |
| Keywords: | Microcosm, Authoring, Hypertext for Education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 259669 |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:19 |
| Contributors: | Davis, HC (Author) Bacon, RA (Author) |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Additional Information: | Event Dates: August 2004 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | ACM Press |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/259669 |
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