Creating hypermedia materials for English literature students

Abstract

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 in Semester II (January through May) 1987 .