At a party where I work, we were drinking some homemade beer. As we shifted back and
forth between two different batches, it became clear that one of the batches was significantly …

The multidisciplinary study of complex systems in the physical and social sciences over the
past quarter of a century has led to the articulation of important new conceptual perspectives …

Although the use of hypertext systems for learning complex knowledge has been attracting
recent attention, we currently have poor theoretical and research perspectives from which to …

The following brief set of remarks is a response to the thoughtful discussions by Merrill (chapter
8) and Dick (chapter 7) of chapter 5, which first appeared in the special issue of …

… We wish to acknowledge, in particular, Mark Bauer, Mike Bennett, Andrew Booker,
Richard Brent, Henri Cohen, Wayne Eberly, Mark Giesbrecht, Andrew Granville, Robbert de …

A central premise of this article is that hypermedia tools may be developed for case and
problem-centered learning in order to achieve significant learning outcomes such as deep …

Education is a complex system, which has conceptual and methodological implications for
education research and policy. In this article, an overview is first provided of the Complex …

… The first paper by Jacobson (this volume) describes a set of theory and research issues
associated with the use of hypermedia learning environments in problem-based pedagogical …

This article proposes a conceptual framework of learning based on perspectives and
methodologies being employed in the study of complex physical and social systems to inform …

The trend toward smaller botnets may be more dangerous than large botnets, in terms of
large-scale attacks like distributed denials of service. We examine the possibility of “super-…