Following new and different links during subsequent online sessions encourages student readers to develop strategies for how to approach text content, as they call upon appropriate relevant schemata, or background knowledge for how to interpret that content. Reading hypertext is a naturally dynamic, recursive, and integrated process, one that provides multiple opportunities for students to acquire, test and reframe knowledge through cognitive reconstruction of text, intertextual analysis and exposure to varied perspectives on issues. Thus, hypertext may promote increased comprehension through the elaboration and integration of new information into the existing knowledge network as readers create and expand the cognitive map that guides their construction of meaning.