A system for providing educational content to a user includes an audiovisual medium via which presentation(s) included in a course offering are accessible as audiovisual content and as text content. The system is selectively promptable by a user via the medium to activate a plurality of expositions of aspects of the course offering, including aspects of the presentation(s), in a plurality of different modes of exposition. This system makes it possible for an individual student to optimize his/her approach to educational content in order to make use of the most effective ways in which that student learns.