These improvements are true for mutimedia and unadulterated text-projects alike. When these projects are placed on a well-maintained network, however, not only are students given voices, but they are given the authority of published authors. T his, then, is why I say hypertext and hypermedia deliver the final blow to teacher-centered learning. A s for students, there is a further step which I think is necessary, but has a slightly more disruptive air about it. I don't mean that they should all have to learn programming.
Nobody has a great deal of trouble transferring knowledge of one to another.
Hypertext and hypermedia will simply be other tools with which to convey messages. Take, for example, Hyper Text Markup Language, the group of symbols that tell Web browsers what to display on a user's screen. There is a cooperative body, the W3 Consortium, headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the web, that is meant to spirit the Web's development rationally. The Consortium sets standards for correct markup language and various protocols. Its purpose is to prevent the web from experiencing a disintegration similar to that of personal computers where the software for one will not work with another.