You could also explore Moodle's wiki, glossary,and stealth activities with activity names auto linking filter on) -- all allow you to have text in a context which can link to extra resources, so you can have explanations at one level, but with the things that go deeper linking to deeper/more detailed treatment, which can in turn link to still deeper treatments. Yay hypertext.
Re: Scaffolding content: increasing complexity/detail of this information each user's visit
by Gregor McNish -
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