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Download full textAllen, Robert B.; Murray, G. Craig; Yang, Hedong – 2002
WQ is a Web-based system that reflects some of the ideas found in WebQuests. This paper analyzes the characteristics that make the WebQuests so popular and determines which of their components give them the greatest educational value. The WQ system, which the authors have implemented, presents sites to be browsed and searched. It allows students…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedFidel, Raya; Davies, Rachel K.; Douglass, Mary H.; Holder, Jenny K.; Hopkins, Carla J.; Kushner, Elisabeth J.; Miyagishima, Bryan K.; Toney, Christina D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Analyzes Web-searching behavior for homework assignments of high school students through field observations in class and at the computer terminal with students thinking aloud, and through interviews with various participants. Results emphasize the need for training and for system design based on user seeking and search behavior. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, High School Students
Badue, Claudine; Vaz, Wesley; Albuquerque, Eduardo – 1998
This paper presents an information agent and latent semantic-based indexing architecture to retrieve documents on the Internet. The system optimizes the search for documents in the Internet by automatically retrieving relevant links. The information used for the search can be obtained, for instance, from Internet browser caches and from grades of…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
