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This article aims to present an ongoing study which has as its main objective to understand how teachers with different characteristics build didactic materials, in complex knowledge domains, by resorting to a cognitive flexibility hypertext. It will present some preliminary results pertaining to the representations of the subjects concerning the prototype as to three main dimensions: ease of use, usefulness and degree of demand of the prototype for the proposed task. The study is currently at the stage of collecting the final data, and treatment and systematisation of qualitative data, enabling us to put forward some perceived trends relating to some of the research issues.
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Pedro, L.F., Moreira, A. (2003). Cognitive Flexibility Hypertexts in the Development of Didactic Materials. In: Llamas-Nistal, M., Fernández-Iglesias, M.J., Anido-Rifon, L.E. (eds) Computers and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1122-7_13
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