--- Karl Wick <karlwick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I have been playing around a bit on
http://test.wikipedia.org building preliminary
textbook
structures and am noticing a tendency to build
layers of
links which organize the information down into
bite-size
modules. The style for this one, about organic
chemistry,
is not nearly as linear as the physics one that I
had
started earlier as a traditional text ... maybe it
is
because of the freedom allowed by hyperlinking. I am
excited to see how all of this develops and
facilitates
non-linear learning. BTW I aggree that the modules
will be
much smaller than traditional textbook chapters. My
plan
for now is to refine each module down to one idea
and send
out any other ideas to thier own module unless an
exceedingly short comment is all that is required,
or one
idea encompasses the relation between a couple of
other
linked modules.
PS Is it just me or does it seem like people are
using this
space to rant on non related subjects ? Maybe I am
subconsciously taking it personally or something ..
I thought the reason for a textbook was for it to be
linear. Otherwise, people could just use the
encyclopedia.
-LDan
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