Incorporating multimedia and hypertext documents in an undergraduate curriculum

The United States Military Academy presents an interesting and challenging environment for teaching undergraduate courses. While the students are highly motivated, they must balance many demands on their time. To provide students with greater control, flexibility, and utility as to when and how they learn course material, the Academy converted their course, information systems, from overhead transparencies and reading assignments to network-based multimedia presentations and hypertext documents. This paper looks at each of these components in detail