During my graduate work at Purdue University, I conducted a research study involving 69 participants comparing whether there is a significant difference in learner retention of information when using basic hypertext technology versus using hypermedia technology to teach the anatomy of type to college level students in the computer graphics field.

There is often a misconception amongst educators and designers creating educational technology that more is better. For example, some have the attitude that if one channel of distributing information (i.e. - text) is good than two (i.e. - text & audio) must be better. Is this really true? This study helped to shed some insight into this issue, by comparing two methods in a controlled environment. The above images link to the two instructional tools used during the study. Below are links to the full documentation of this study and to a basic chart explaining a portion of the results of the testing phase.