You can think of the entire base of knowledge as a vast continuum, a flow of intricately interrelated concepts. However, instructors have traditionally delivered knowledge to students in a series of formalized steps that interrupts the flow and breaks the natural links among concepts. Moreover, knowledge is often packaged and delivered in ways that fail to take into account students’ learning styles and natural curiosity.

Connexions offers an alternative to current modes of teaching and learning as well as to how knowledge is developed and shared. With powerful software tools, Connexions gives students of any age access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit individual learning styles as the student explores the links among concepts.