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1. Reading at a Crossroads?

   Disjunctures and Continuities in Conceptions and Practices of Reading in the 21st Century

   Edited by Rand J. Spiro, Michael Deschryver, Michelle S. Hagerman, Paul Morsink, Penny Thompson

   The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Hypertext and Cognition

   Edited by Jean-Francois Rouet, Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon, Rand J. Spiro, Jarmo J. Levonen

   The recent evolution of western societies has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on information and communication. As the amount of available information increases, however, the user -- worker, student, citizen -- faces a new problem: selecting and accessing relevant information. More...

   Published March 31st 1996 by Routledge
3. Cognition, Education, and Multimedia

   Exploring Ideas in High Technology

   By Rand J. Spiro, Don Nix, Rand J. Spiro, Don Nix

   Edited by Don Nix, Rand Spiro

   Computers have become a topic of concern, debate, argument, dogmatism, and inquiry among a variety of people who are interested in the fate and effectiveness of the educational system. This book presents working hypotheses of ways in which computers may fit into and/or transform classroom education...

   Published October 31st 1990 by Routledge