Alberta, University of

Hypertext Reading & Writing

Department: English: theory and practice

Institution: Alberta, University of
Instructor: Miall, David S.
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This course studies some of the pedagogical evaluations of hypertext in order to assess their role in teaching and learning. Students will be expected to develop some skill in creating hypertexts of their own, whether in the form of essays or short fiction.

The theoretical focus of the course will involve three main components:

1. Hypertext as postmodern theory. We will ask how well existing examples of hypertext bear out the claims made by postmodernist accounts of he nature of text

2. Reading texts and hypertexts. We will test theoretical claims about hypertext against actual studies of reading and learning through hypertext.

3. The cultural place of literature. We will attempt to assess the implications of the recent rise of computing and the Internet for the fate of literature.

Interactive Multimedia

Institution: Alberta, University of
Instructor: Wright, PW | email
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This education lab course emphasizes the design and development of instructional lessons which incorporate learning with multimedia. Students create lessons to meet a defined instructional need or goal for a specified population of learners. The lessons employ principles of interactive design plus the multimedia elements of static and dynamic visual displays, audio, and color. They are synthesized into a coherent and tested lesson using one of several multimedia authoring systems. Final projects are distributed on CD-ROM.

American River College

Introduction to Poetry

Department: English: literature

Institution: American River College
Instructor: Handa, C. P. | email
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The instructor writes that "the final assignment in this class... could be either a standard academic paper or a hypertext. Students who liked working in Storyspace really liked it. I have had some students go on to other lit. classes and ask the professor why he/she wasn't using Storyspace."

Athabasca

Literature and Hypertext

Institution: Athabasca
Instructor: Joseph Pivato
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Comparative Literature II: World Literature and Multi-Media.

Department: english: literature

Institution: Athabasca
Instructor: Tschofen, Monique
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From modern art and Tender Buttons to Patchwork Girl

Literature and Hypertext (English 475). Carolyn Guertin, Monique Tschofen, Stephen Totosy de Zepetnik.

Past, presents, futures; the politics of hypertext; hypertext and literary research.

Ball State

Textuality and New Media

Department: English

Institution: Ball State
Instructor: Webster Newbold
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The Senior Seminar offers Ball State English majors an opportunity to end their undergraduate careers with a time of reflection on their learning and a gathering of their best products into a "portfolio" in a computer-based multi-media format.

The seminar also supplies a rigorous academic component, a kind of capstone experience that takes students into uncharted terrain and widens their vision of English studies. In tandem with the electronic portfolio project, our area of exploration is Textuality and New Media, with an emphasis on digital textuality. This phenomenon is transforming the way we relate to language in all its facets--the way we read, compose, communicate; the ways we understand our literacy skills; the ways we encounter poetry, fiction, and scholarly documents. Understanding New Media begins with consideration of textuality itself, including pre-textual orality, the origin and development of writing and texts, and the general history of literacy.

Barry University

Writing on the Internet

Department: English: writing

Institution: Barry University
Instructor: Peever, Adrian | email
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Students in this course distinguish traditional text documents from e-texts and hypertexts, examining the stylistic consequences of these formal distinctions. The class emphasizes the sense that traditional notions of authorship and authority are reconstituted by the contemporary writing environment, and students apply their findings via the creation of original hypertext documents both individually and in collaboration with their peers. Students also read and critique hypertext articles and fiction, in particular Michael Joyce's classic of hypertext fiction afternoon, a story.

Bates College

Hyperwriting

Department: English: composition

Institution: Bates College
Instructor: Kolb, David | email
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The computer makes possible new types of non-linear writing that need not follow the standard forms of fiction or of academic discourse. What will their new forms be, and will they have their own ways of being both creative and self-critical? This unit offers a chance to experiment in the creation of new forms by writing hypertexts together, using Storyspace and Mosaic. There will be both individual and group projects, with peer review and critique sessions each week. Enrollment is limited to 15.

Bemijdi State

Blogs and wikis

Institution: Bemijdi State
Instructor: M. C. Morgan
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Bergen, University of

Web Design by Blogging

Institution: Bergen, University of
Instructor: Walker, Jill | email
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Dr. Jill Walker has published a variety of coursework resources, several of which use weblogs and talk about hypertext.

http://huminf.uib.no/huin105

This site is in Norwegian.

Dr. Walker's English language weblog has a category about blogs and teaching category which often talks about hypertext and weblogs:

http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?cat=15

Berkeley

Digital Storytelling

Institution: Berkeley
Instructor: Maggie Sokolik
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College Writing

108: Digital Storytelling Syllabus

Ashes Sparks and Hypertext

Institution: Berkeley
Instructor: Mark Phillipson
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Our seminar will concentrate on works representing important aspects of British romanticism. We'll read them closely to reconstruct their fantasies about audience, trace their actual adventures of publication, trace ways in which they were answered, ignored, or parodied, and finally consider new representations on the Internet. The Web, after all, is starting to shake up the shape and distribution of texts in ways that the romantics never dreamed.

Brown

Boccaccio's Decameron

Institution: Brown
Instructor: Chistiana Fordyce
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A course on The Decameron incorportating a substantially hypertextual corpus, The Decameron Web

Hypertext and Literary Theory

Institution: Brown
Instructor: George P. Landow | email
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Survey of English Literature, 1700 to the Present

Institution: Brown
Instructor: George P. Landow | email
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English 32 -- widely known for its historic role in the growth of hypertext. Source of The Dickens Web and The In Memoriam Web.

Hypertext Fiction Workshop

Institution: Brown
Instructor: Robert Coover and Robert Arellano | email
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This workshop has fostered many hypertext writers, including Mary-kim Arnold, author of Lust, and Shelley Jackson, author of Patchwork Girl. Home of the Hypertext Hotel a collaborative hypertext.

The Hypertext fiction workshop is a forum for serious authors and artists to experiment with computer-intensive tools that challenge traditional, linear narrative structures, and has introduced participants to Internet information sources, audio-visual archives, and broadband distribution channels that avail themselves to the composer of electronic media.

Participants will be working with hypertext authoring tools for the first time in this workshop, it is expected that all will concentrate on a serious project or series of projects over the course of the semester.

Brown University

Document Engineering

Department: Computer Science

Institution: Brown University
Instructor: David Durand
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Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory

Institution: Brown University
Instructor: George Landow
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Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory was offered in the Spring of 1996. It was taught by George Landow, who literally wrote the book on Hypertext.

This course discusses the decentralization of the self, and the merging of the self in terms of electronic environments. It discusses prosthesis, the augmentation of the self.

Some of the works the course examines include: The Neuomancer Trilogy; Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation,

Greco, The Cyborg Web; Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, and others.

English 111 (section 2) Hypertext and Literary Theory, 1999

Department: English

Institution: Brown University
Instructor: George P. Landow
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Buffalo

Postmodern Fiction In The Information Age

Department: English

Institution: Buffalo
Instructor: Joseph Conte
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As a complement to these works of fiction, the seminar will alternate its attentions with selections from a variety of critical and theoretical texts on the information age and electronic media, including Espen Aarseth's Cybertext: Perspective on Ergodic Literature, Sven Birkerts's The Gutenberg Elegies, Robert Coover's "The End of Books," Donna Haraway's Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. Digital Delirium, Michael Joyce's Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, George Landow's Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, William Paulson's The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information, and Tabbi and Wutz, eds. Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology.

California / Berkeley

College Writing

Institution: California / Berkeley
Instructor: Maggie Sokolik | email
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College Writing 1A is an intensive, accelerated course for English reading and composition. Each section of College Writing 1A is organized around a theme. The theme for this section is New Worlds/Old Worlds.

In the course of investigating these topics,students build a skillset which includes Internet research methods, web page creation, and writing using CommonSpace

Digital Storytelling

Institution: California / Berkeley
Instructor: Maggie Sokolik, Nina Mullen, and Joe Lambert
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Reading, writing, and discussion about storytelling in a digital era as well as the impact of technology on individuals and cultures. Students will learn how to craft engaging stories, analyze and critique each others' stories, work with the tools necessary to present material in digital format, and other skills.

California, University of @ Santa Barbara

Electronic Literature and Culture

Department: English: Literature

Institution: California, University of @ Santa Barbara
Instructor: Raley, Rita | email
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This course discusses the relations between text and image; post-humanism; cyborgs and the technology of reproduction; simulation and the simulacrum; the idea of a digital condition; techno-paranoia; "making do" and the figure of the hacker; the theoretical and cultural antecedents of hypertext; the anamorphic text; the stylistics of hypertextual narrative; and the general problem of literary value in relation to codes and information.

The same instructor also taught similar courses at the University of Minnesota in the Fall of 2000 and Spring of 2000.

California, University of @ San Diego

Computing in the Arts

Department: art: aesthetics

Institution: California, University of @ San Diego
Instructor: Adriene Jenik | email
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A theoretical, aesthetic, and technical introduction to the challenges of art and culture that the computer represents.

California/Santa Barbara

Hyperliterature

Department: English: Literature

Institution: California/Santa Barbara
Instructor: Liu, Alan
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Readings include Califia, afternoon, Patchwork Girl, Grammatron, and Reagan Library.

Capilano College

Web Content Development

Department: English: writing

Institution: Capilano College
Instructor: Kilian, Crawford | email
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This course ran for the first time in the January-April semester, 2004. Its purpose: to familiarize the student with the basic principles of Web site content development as they apply to text, graphics, and multimedia; to enable the student to “translate” from technical jargon into plain English; to equip students with basic editing and rewriting skills.

The course focused on certain skills critical to web content development, such as writing, editing, and organization. The basic terms and concepts of rhetoric were applied in analysis of Web site language.

Finally, students applied these skills in the production of extensive documents in the form of personal and corporate Web sites.

Centenary College

Cyberculture/Theory

Institution: Centenary College
Instructor: Bryan N. Alexander | email
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A class exploring critical theory applied to the internet

Centenary College

Multimedia Literature 2000

Institution: Centenary College
Instructor: Bryan Alexander | email
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A survey of multimedia literature in English, from the medieval illuminated manuscript through contemporary hypertext, this course also introduces students to practical electronic media writing and hypertext design.

This course introduces students to the history, analysis, and writing of multimedia texts. Relying heavily on internet technology, students will study on-line writing from a rhetorical point of view, focusing on electronic style, rhetorical communities, and conventions. The class will work around a course Web site as students develop their own pages; as the semester progresses student pages will progress as their skills increase. One of the aims of this class is to productively rethink literature as a multimedia, rather than text-only, subject. To this end students will examine pre-computer multimedia texts, such as medieval illuminated manuscripts, Restoration painting- and music-poems, Blake's self-illustrated books, Rossetti's sonnet paintings, Dickinson's graphical experiments, Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, Artaud's total theater, modernist publication experiments, the early graphic novel, and postmodernism's collage strategies.

Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes

Narrative Media

Institution: Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes
Instructor: Fran Ilich
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This course is taught in Mexico City, about Narrative Media.

Colorado State

Virtual Culture and Communication

Institution: Colorado State
Instructor: Brian Ott
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This course introduces students to the principle issues, concepts, and theories involved in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), promotes technological proficiency and practical skills development in the field of CMC, and fosters a critical understanding and appreciation of the rhetorical dimensions of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Columbia University

New Media Narrative

Department: Art

Institution: Columbia University
Instructor:
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This course focuses on the practical aspects of interface design, as well as on the theoretical basis behind such designs.

Complutense University (Spain)

Electronic publishing in the design of Human Resources training manuals

Department: Psychology

Institution: Complutense University (Spain)
Instructor: Jose M. Prieto | email
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Faculty of psychology. A 150 hour workshop.

Hypertext 212

Department: Web Development

Institution: Curtin University of Technology
Instructor: Beau Lebens
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Advanced text and multimedia processing using hypertext technology to integrate graphics, animation and sound with text documents. Interactive user interfaces to database or spreadsheet applications. Evaluation of hypertext, hypermedia hardware and software products and application packages.

On successful completion of this unit, students will have - Designed and developed a Graphic User Interface (GUI) using Java. Designed and developed a small web application using a contemporary software (Java applets). Knowledge of the basic concepts of Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Curtin University of Technology

Hypertext 313

Department: Information Architecture

Institution: Curtin University of Technology
Instructor: Beau Lebens
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This course discusses: electronic publishing systems, including on-line document and help systems, published on CDROM, internet and intranets. Authoring tools for complex documentation sets, lectronic libraries for teaching/learning support, including information retrieval, documentation management systems.

Hypertext 211

Department: Web Development

Institution: Curtin University of Technology
Instructor: Lebens, Beau
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On successful completion of this unit, students will have - Used hypertext markup language (e.g. HTML) to render documents into hypertext format. Used JavaScript with HTML to create interactive contents for the Web: Forms and Data Validation and navigation structures. Created intra-document and inter-document hypertext links using a variety of methods as provided in application packages and hypertext development tools (e.g. Dreamweaver, Frontpage). Used the JavaScript Object Model to control the browser. Used Cascading Style Sheets and understand the Document Object Model. Developed Cookies in Web applications. Assessed security issues relating to client-side scripts.

Dakota State University

Electronic Publishing: Web Publishing

Department: English: Journalism

Institution: Dakota State University
Instructor: Ericsson, Patricia
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includes an interesting discussion of hypertext genre and the Web

Dartmouth

Interactivity: Contemporary Art and New Media, 1975-present

Department: Art

Institution: Dartmouth
Instructor: David Getsy
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Examining the impact of new media and technologies, this course will provide a selective introduction to issues relating to the production and reception of art since 1975. Students should note that we will not attempt to deal with the vast diversity of contemporary art but will rather focus on specific topics. We will be primarily concerned, though not exclusively so, with developments in the United States and Britain. Our concerns will be with the diversification of artistic media (for example, the growth of installation into a distinct artistic medium), the impact of new technologies on art practice (for example, the rise of video art), and the use of science and technology by artists. Particular emphasis will be placed on the emergence of "internet art" and its implications.

Postmodern Fiction: Boxes Labyrinths, or Webs Boxes, Labyrinths, or Webs

Department: English: literature

Institution: Dartmouth
Instructor: Silver, Brenda R.
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"We will read a number of contemporary hypertexts (see George Landow's Storyspace Cluster) and explore the literary and pedagogical issues evoked by the new media. And, we will create hypertexts of our own. Writers will include such figures as Borges, Beckett, Pynchon, Duras, Barthes; Michael Joyce, Judy Malloy, Nancy Kaplan, Guyer, Moulthrop, Jay Bolter, and George Landow. No prior experience with hypertext or electronic texts is required. The course is designed as an introduction to the technology, the texts, and the questions they raise."

Dartmouth

Undergraduate Advanced Writing Workshop: Writing On The Internet

Department: english

Institution: Dartmouth
Instructor: Thomas, Sue
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This web-based course focuses upon a variety of writing modes as they appear on the World Wide Web. We will be looking at and producing criticism, opinion, journalism, essays and discussions, as well as fiction and other creative genres.

Dortmund, University of - Germany

Cyberhypes and Interfictions: Digital Literature or the Technologizing of the Arts?

Department: American Studies

Institution: Dortmund, University of - Germany
Instructor: | email
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Does the beginning of the 21st century mark the end of literature as we know it? This class focuses on a new branch of literary texts that find their appearance on our digital computer screens, instead of on our bookshelves. It covers new cultural phenomena like cyberfeminism and global village poetry, and we will discuss what the result of an increased “remediation” of literature might mean for our cultural and literary production. Other questions that this class deals with are: How do narrative strategies in hypermedia literature differ from those in a book? Which new themes have emerged? Has the postmodern concept of play ended and the spectacle begun? Has the literary critic become a media aestheticist? readings include the works of Robert Kendall, Shelley Jackson, Mark Amerika, amongst others.

Duke University

Democracy, Technology, and Authorship in America

Department: English: theory

Institution: Duke University
Instructor: Taylor, Catherine | email
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This course was taught in the spring off 1995. It covered four main themes: The changing role of copyright, globalized collaborative work, Identity, Meaning, and the Presence of the Author, and Accessibility and Democracy on the Internet

East Anglia, University of

Research Journal: India

Institution: East Anglia, University of
Instructor:
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Research Journal: India is the journal of a project in which the aim is to encourage children to participate in the research by using digital cameras. The typepad site is an attempt to provide a resource to teach qualititative research methods in education.

Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

Culture + Communication + Hypermedia

Institution: Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
Instructor: Ron Burnett
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Evergreen State

Folk Talks for the Next 999 Years

Department: Communication

Institution: Evergreen State
Instructor: Rebecca Chamberlain
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Readings from Italo Calvino to Mark Stefik.

Florida, University of

Writing the Labyrinth

Institution: Florida, University of
Instructor: Whalen, Zach | email
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This couse resembles "Writing through Media," also taught at the University of Florida. It is organized around the theme of "labyrinth".

Students read, view, or played several works that use a labyrinth as a theme in various ways (Borges, P.K.Dick, The Matrix, Memento, House of Leaves) and we created works in different media which lend themselves to or require "labyrinthine" technology or organization (MOO, blog, hypertext).

I'm writing in response to the call for information about hypertext courses and syllabi. I'm a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Florida, and last fall I taught a course called ENG 1131 : Writing through Media (official course title). The course was developed by Greg Ulmer and is meant to be something like Advanced Composition but with an toward electracy. When a TA gets the course, it's basically up to him/her how to approach that.

You can see my take on it here:

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~zwhalen/mazes/

I organized the class

In the "archives" section of the course site, you can see several examples of student work. Some of them were quite beautiful in my teacherly assessment, and a couple of the MOO projects are simply stunning if you can find them.

Let me know if you have any questions about the course.

There are several of us who have taken hypertextual approaches, so you'll probably be hearing from other people like me if you haven't already.

Best,

Zach Whalen

University of Florida.

Florida, University of

Writing through Media

Department: English

Institution: Florida, University of
Instructor: Taylor, Laurie | email
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Writing through Media has been taught in a couple of different sections. The readings and classwork aim towards making connections between digital reading and writing practices.

In fall 2002 the Writing Through Media class taught "Fibonnaci's Daughter," "Trip," and "Twelve Blue" in conjunction with J. Yellowlees Douglas' book on hypetext, articles on web design, MOO work, and video games, and other sources.

The spring 2002 Writing Through Media class taught "Patchwork Girl," Bolter's "Writing Space: Computers, HyperText, and the Remediation of Print," along with various articles and the computer video game "System Shock 2."

The professor, Laurie Taylor is currently doing technology training with graduate students and plans to teach a class on composing in hypertext in the near future.

Eastgate Academic Compendium

Courses in hypertext theory, in writing hypertext, on hypertext literature, and on the design and implementation of hypertext tools are taught throughout the world, from elementary school through graduate studies.

We hope that this compendium of hypertext courses will give students and instructors, now and in the future, a better sense of what has been done elsewhere and what might be accomplished, and to facilitate communication among everyone interested in studying and teaching hypertext.

These notes describe courses, past and present, of which we have heard. We apologize for errors and inaccuracies. Please send corrections and additions to info@eastgate.com.

Hypertext in Courses

This is a list of frequently asked questions about the use of Hypertext in a classroom setting.

Can I assign hypertexts to my classes?

Yes. Eastgate's hypertexts are assigned texts in classes throughout the world. The most common subject areas are modern literature, writing, and hypertext design, but hypertexts have been part of courses ranging from Computer Science to Sociology.

Can my school's bookstore order hypertexts for my students?

Yes. Eastgate works with school and college bookstores throughout the world. We're also happy to accept orders from instructors, groups of students, or individual students.

Can our reading group explore hypertexts?

Yes. If your group has ten or more members, we can often arrange special discounts.

Can you help arrange for guest lectures?

We can are happy to help arrange lectures, readings, hypertext signings, and workshops. Please call for ideas, or email info@eastgate.com .

Can we license hypertexts for our computer classrooms?

Yes. Special licenses are available for 10 or 100 simultaneous users, or for unlimited use within a library or campus.

Are multi-user licenses expensive?

No. Prices vary, but for many titles a 10-user license costs just $59.85.

What about libraries?

Libraries throughout the world collect Eastgate hypertexts. Hypertexts can circulate like books, and can be placed on reserve if demand is high. Multi-user licenses are inexpensive, so it is easy to meet the demands of large classes. Additional information on hypertext in libraries.