Interesting examples of some of these capabilities are available right here on UBC Web servers. The Geriatric Medicine Discharge Planning Simulation was created cooperatively by a geriatrician at St. Paul's hospital, a third year medical student at Queen's University, and Medicine's Office of Educational Support and Development. It's a good example of innovative use of hypermedia. The site takes the form of a series of pages. It tests for knowledge of discharge planning by presenting a hypothetical clinical case and requiring a set of decisions to be made in the discharge process.
Hints are available along the way.
There are over 170 separate, interlinked pages involved. Searchable databases Text or image sets that are searchable make it much easier for students to find reference information. It displays sets of rock and mineral photographs based on keyword searches and gives students access to a set of images not easily available otherwise. Most students, and instructors for that matter, can benefit from increased communications. While Web course information can include the e-mail addresses of instructors, teaching assistants and even students, several tools exist that allow everyone to contribute to a discussion, or to create new discussions.