Individualizing Instruction in a Web-based Hypermedia Learning Environment: Nonlinearity, Advance Organizers, and Self-Regulated Learners.

Discussion of the interaction of instructional strategies and learner characteristics focuses on linearity versus nonlinearity, self-regulated learning, and advance organizers in knowledge acquisition in a Web-based hypermedia learning environment. Highlights include results from an analysis of covariance; variables including computer anxiety and prior computer knowledge; and recommendations for further study. (Contains 44 references.) (LRW)