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    What are Cognitive Tools?

    Tools are extensions of human beings that partially differentiate humans from lower order species of animals. Other species of animals have discovered tools, but have been unable to conceive needs to construct...

    David H. Jonassen in Cognitive Tools for Learning (1992)

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    Adding Intelligence to Hypertext with Expert Systems and Adding Usability to Expert Systems with Hypertext

    Hypertext refers to a non-sequential, non-linear method for organizing and displaying text. It was designed to enable the reader to access information from a text in ways that are most meaningful (Nelson, 1981...

    in Hypermedia Courseware: Structures of Communication and Intelligent Help (1992)

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    Designing Hypertext for Learning

    This paper describes hypertext, and its potential as a technology that can effectively facilitate learning.

    David H. Jonassen in New Directions in Educational Technology (1992)

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    Levels of Processing in Building Expert Systems

    Expert systems are regarded by many as cognitive tools; they are content independent and generalisable applications that can elicit higher order mental processing from learners. This paper defines the function...

    David H. Jonassen, R. Scott Grabinger in Cognitive Tools for Learning (1992)

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    Cognitive flexibility theory and its implications for designing CBI

    In this chapter, I argue that cognitive flexibility theory implemented in hypertext provides an effective model for designing and develo** computer-based instruction to support advanced knowledge acquisition...

    David H. Jonassen in Instructional Models in Computer-Based Learning Environments (1992)