Failing to recognize this generally leads to frustration after the faculty member has invested enough time to progress to a point on the learning curve where they realize realize they're in over their heads. The instructional effectiveness of the resulting product is not an explicit factor in the design criteria. While the experience of the faculty member may bias the outcome in a desired way, their relatively novice status in the areas of instructional design, software development and multimedia are more likely to bias the outcome in an undesired way. See feature comparison link here . A more extensive comparison page which doesn't list iMole but does list other packages is available here .
Most online content consists of text, images, navigational structures, etc.
The presentation mechanism itself usually has no knowledge of how these content elements relate to each other. This can be quite tedious if two formats are required since each must be maintained independently even though the underlying content is the same. This permits, where it makes sense, the same content to be presented in different interfaces, i.e., linearly, hierarchically, relationally, etc. HyperText environments have been demonstrated by peer-reviewed research to be detrimental to student learning in a variety of situations. Software is designed to take advantage of the computer's ability to truly serve as a non-linear instructional platform as opposed to simply being an information distribution platform.