The role of hypertext’s systems in learning
The role of hypertext’s systems in learning

Summary/Abstract: Hypertexts offer many aids for constructing a coherent representation of the text’s contents and thus impose higher cognitive demands than linear texts (Foltz, 1996). Building a coherent representation of the hypertext structure enables users to navigate effectively within the text. Hypertexts allow users to reduce working memory load without constraining self-regulated learning processes. Reading of the hypertexts needs some meta-cognitive processes in order to choose the information that will be read and the sequence in which these will be accessed in order to be read.

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