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Guajardo, Richard; Brett, Kelsey; Young, Frederick – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
For the past several years academic libraries have been adopting discovery systems to provide a search experience that reflects user expectations and improves access to electronic resources. University of Houston Libraries has kept pace with this evolving trend by pursuing various discovery options; these include an open-source tool, a federated…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
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AlAgha, Iyad – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This article presents KnowledgePuzzle, a browsing tool for knowledge construction from the web. It aims to adapt the structure of web content to the learner's information needs regardless of how the web content is originally delivered. Learners are provided with a meta-cognitive space (e.g., a concept mapping tool) that enables them to plan…
Descriptors: Web Browsers, Navigation (Information Systems), Hypermedia, Computer Software Evaluation
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Little, Suzanne; Ferguson, Rebecca; Ruger, Stefan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
The authors describe how content-based multimedia search technologies can be used to help learners find new materials and learning pathways by identifying semantic relationships between educational resources in a social learning network. This helps users--both learners and educators--to explore and find material to support their learning aims.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Use Studies, Semantics, Educational Technology
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Miller, L. D.; Soh, Leen-Kiat; Samal, Ashok; Nugent, Gwen – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2012
Learning objects (LOs) are digital or non-digital entities used for learning, education or training commonly stored in repositories searchable by their associated metadata. Unfortunately, based on the current standards, such metadata is often missing or incorrectly entered making search difficult or impossible. In this paper, we investigate…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Metadata, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
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Marenzi, I.; Zerr, S. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
This paper discusses the development of LearnWeb2.0, a search and collaboration environment for supporting searching, organizing, and sharing distributed resources, and our pedagogical setup based on the multiliteracies approach. In LearnWeb2.0, collaborative and active learning is supported through project-focused search and aggregation, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Searching, Qualitative Research, Evaluation Methods
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Calloway, Linda Jo – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2004
The proliferation of information in electronic format does not guarantee its accessibility. The fact that many Web sites are not accessible to large segments of the disabled community has created a digital divide. Web accessibility is especially important in University communities, since the Internet and the digitization of information have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Information, Web Sites, Accessibility (for Disabled)