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Stephen Downes

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I'm not sure there are many people creating learning technology applications by hand any more, but for those who are, this discussion of links versus buttons is useful (as an aside, I'm not sure any learning technology is being developed these days, beyond wrappers for AI interfaces). Anyhow, to make a long story short: use a link to open a web page or resource, and use a button to perform an action. Doing it the other way around will create usability problems. Image: Eric Eggert.

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