Creating Hypermedia Materials for English Literature Student s Nicole Yankelovich George P . Lando w David Cody Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) / Department of English Brown Universit y As part of an on going effort to develop software appropriate for university scholar s and teachers, Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarshi p (IRIS), with partial funding by the Annenberg/CPB Project, is collaborating wit h members of the English Department in a three year research project designed t o introduce a computer component into an introductory English literature course . The materials for the course have been created using software called Intermedia which has been developed at IRIS . This software, which runs on networked workstations wit h high resolution displays, is also being used to create materials for a plant cell biology course. Both courses, with the computer component in place, will be taught i n Semester II (January through May) 1987 . There were several reasons for choosing the English literature course as part of th e research project. First of all, we were interested in rethinking the structure, content , and pedagogical emphases of the course : In particular,
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