Hypermedia is basically multimedia packaged as an educational computer software. Information is presented and student activities are integrated in a virtual learning environment. Examples are tutorial software and simulation instructional games.
Examples of tutorial software may include typing tutorials and other how-to's. A common simulation type of hypermedia is the one used by pilots, the flight simulator.
Given its advantage being less expensive than the real thing, hypermedia still doesn't replace the experience and learning from the actual environment of life and nature.
Speaking of simulators, I remember they have these in Science Discovery in Mall of Asia. They have flight simulators for flying helicopters and planes. By using the simulator, we could decide whether people without experience could fly a plane or a helicopter without external instruction in times of emergency. We see movies wherein ordinary passengers sit on the pilot's seat and get talked through by someone on the ground on how to land the plane. Really interesting.
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