In interactive media, the facility to deviate from a central narrative or course structure
Normally deleted scenes are grouped together Branching puts the deleted scenes back into movie, so you see a version of the film with scenes NOT included in theaters
An instructional technique, usually in the form of programmed text, in which the learner's next step of instruction is determined by her response to a previous step Two or more directions in a program path can go from a decision point
A tutorial structure that progresses through material in a path that depends on the learner's response to questions
The growth of a new polymer chain from an active site on an established chain, in a direction different from that of the original chain
A programming structure that evaluates a condition and then takes one of two actions based on the outcome of condition evaluation
The ability of a program to alter its sequence according to user choices or responses If a computer-based training program uses branching, it may explain why the answer is incorrect, offer additional examples/problems, and/or reroute the student into an additional instructional subsection when a student enters a wrong answer Without branching, it may simply tell the student that the answer is wrong
the act of branching out or dividing into branches resembling the branches of a tree