By contrast with traditional media, one of the key benefits for interactive media is seen as being the lack of imposed structure, giving much greater freedom of control to the user. However, in the context of instruction, this benefit runs counter to the learner's need to discern structure if there is a message to be understood. We have found, from observation in previous research studies, that learners working on interactive media with no clear narrative structure display learning behaviour that is generally unfocussed and inconclusive. Thus, one of the key benefits of interactive media, the greater learner control it offers, becomes pedagogically disadvantageous of it results in mere absence of structure.

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