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Kiryakova, Aida V.; Shabalina, Liudmila G.; Manakova, Olga S.; Mechkovskaya, Olga A.; Vodolazhskaya, Ekaterina L.; Ostanina, Sofia Sh.; Komissarova, Larisa F. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The article relevance. Currently, the world is rapidly undergoing the process of Informatization of all aspects of society, the development and introduction of new information technologies. This highlights the need for further reflection and research on the development of the Internet and its opening opportunities for people. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Search Engines, Information Seeking, Information Retrieval
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Tomaszewski, Robert – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills in research involves using different search strategies. A proposed concept for an "Imploded Boolean Search" combines three unique identifiable field types to perform a search: keyword(s), numerical value(s), and a chemical structure or reaction. The object of this type of search is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry, Case Studies
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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2013
Students who search for broad terms on the Internet can be deluged by useless or offensive information. Dave Gladney, project manager for the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), says what's needed is a commonly agreed-upon vocabulary for describing content for education search. The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) has a…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Information Retrieval, Search Engines
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Huvila, Isto – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
Even though the concept of information literacy typically embraces an idea of a complete participation in an information community, its definitions have tended to underline the phases of seeking, searching and evaluation instead of creating information. Shortcomings of information creation can, however, explain many of the difficulties of finding…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Internet, Evaluation, Metadata
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Coiro, Julie – Theory Into Practice, 2011
This article highlights four cognitive processes key to online reading comprehension and how one might begin to transform existing think-aloud strategy models to encompass the challenges of reading for information on the Internet. Informed by principles of cognitive apprenticeship and an emerging taxonomy of online reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Internet, Protocol Analysis
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Caldera-Serrano, Jorge – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
This paper describes a procedure to manage connotations, so that they may be identified in the document databases of television channels. The system is based on Ranganathan's facets, as this is the best tool to describe actions--i.e. the units analysed in television--which enable the identification of the connoted information by introducing or…
Descriptors: Internet, Television, Library Science, Interpersonal Relationship
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Nodenot, Thierry; Sallaberry, Christian; Gaio, Mauro – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
Geographically related queries form nearly one-fifth of all queries submitted to the Excite search engine and the most frequently occurring terms are names of places. This paper focuses on digital libraries and extends the basic services of existing library management systems to include new ones that are dedicated to geographic information…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Geography Instruction, Electronic Libraries, Internet
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Huang, Chang-Qin; Duan, Ru-Lin; Tang, Yong; Zhu, Zhi-Ting; Yan, Yong-Jian; Guo, Yu-Qing – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
The semantic web brings a new opportunity for efficient information organization and search. To meet the special requirements of the educational field, this paper proposes an intelligent search engine enabled by educational semantic support service, where three kinds of searches are integrated into Educational Information Intelligent Search (EIIS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Search Engines, Educational Technology, Reaction Time
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Mozgovoy, Maxim; Kakkonen, Tuomo; Cosma, Georgina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
The availability and use of computers in teaching has seen an increase in the rate of plagiarism among students because of the wide availability of electronic texts online. While computer tools that have appeared in recent years are capable of detecting simple forms of plagiarism, such as copy-paste, a number of recent research studies devoted to…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Alphabets, Internet, Ethics
Anderson, Terry; Dron, Jon – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
This paper updates earlier work in which we defined three generations of distance education pedagogy. We then describe emerging technologies that are most conducive to instructional designs that evolve with each generation. Finally we discuss matching the pedagogies with learning outcomes. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Technological Advancement, Outcomes of Education
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Siadaty, Melody; Gasevic, Dragan; Jovanovic, Jelena; Pata, Kai; Milikic, Nikola; Holocher-Ertl, Teresa; Jeremic, Zoran; Ali, Liaqat; Giljanovic, Aleksandar; Hatala, Marek – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Self-regulated learning processes have a potential to enhance the motivation of knowledge workers to take part in learning and reflection about learning, and thus contribute to the resolution of an important research challenge in workplace learning. An equally important research challenge for the successful completion of each step of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Educational Technology, Workplace Learning
Webb, Paula L.; Nero, Muriel D. – Computers in Libraries, 2009
In today's world of instant everything, everyone has been exposed to some form of Web 2.0 technology, and higher education is not exempt from its long reach. Libraries of all types are incorporating Web 2.0 features to attract users as well as to showcase library services. The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) has become more user-friendly with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Academic Libraries, Online Catalogs, Library Services
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Christie, Derek – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2008
This article shows how to use Microsoft Excel to get data from the Internet into a statistically usable form.
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Internet, Information Technology, Information Skills
Moran, Caitlin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Many colleges use cellphones to warn the campus of potential threats. The devices are, after all, in almost every student's pocket. Now worried instructors and administrators say that students might use phones to cheat on tests. Not only do cellphones give students a new way to stealthily ask a friend for help. They now have the ability to access…
Descriptors: Internet, Telecommunications, Cheating, Tests
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Petocz, Peter; Sowey, Eric – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2008
As a branch of knowledge, Statistics is ubiquitous and its applications can be found in (almost) every field of human endeavour. In this article, the authors track down the possible source of the link between the "Siren song" and applications of Statistics. Answers to their previous five questions and five new questions on Statistics are presented.
Descriptors: Statistics, Correlation, Internet, Online Searching
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