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Non-Science Majors' Critical Evaluation of Websites in a Biotechnology Course
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Halverson, Kristy L.; Siegel, Marcelle A.; Freyermuth, Sharyn K. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
Helping students develop criteria for judgment and apply examination skills is essential for promoting scientific literacy. With the increasing availability of the Internet, it is even more essential that students learn how to evaluate the science they gather from online resources. This is particularly true because publishing information on the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Biotechnology, Scientific Literacy, Internet
Personalised Virtual Learning Spaces to Support Undergraduates in Producing Research Reports: Two Case Studies
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Kallkvist, Marie; Gomez, Stephen; Andersson, Holger; Lush, David – Internet and Higher Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to create and evaluate personalised virtual learning spaces (PVLSs) in a course that was previously delivered face-to-face only. The study addressed three related questions: (1) Can a PVLS successfully be introduced into a course where IT has not previously featured? (2) Can the PVLSs be used to enhance the assessment…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Projects, Program Effectiveness, Case Studies
WebGURU: The Web-Based Guide to Research for Undergraduates
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Mabrouk, Patricia; McIntyre, Ryan; Virrankoski, Milena; Jeliffe, Kirsten – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2007
Undergraduate research (UR) is widely promoted by faculty, administrators, institutions of higher learning, government laboratories, private industry, professional associations, and funding agencies as an effective method of training college students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Internet, Research Skills, Student Research
Content Recommendation Based on Education-Contextualized Browsing Events for Web-Based Personalized Learning
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Wang, Feng-Hsu – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The WWW is now in widespread use for delivering on-line learning content in many large-scale education settings. Given such widespread usage, it is feasible to accumulate data concerning the most useful learning experiences of past students and share them with future students. Browsing events that depict how past students utilized the learning…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Materials, Internet, Models
Evaluating an Electronic Plagiarism Detection Service: The Importance of Trust and the Difficulty of Proving Students Don't Cheat
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Evans, Robert – Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2006
Plagiarism by students is seen as an increasing problem. The fear is that students will use the internet to obtain analysis, interpretation or even complete assignments and then submit these as their own work. Electronic plagiarism detection services may help to prevent such unfair practice but, in doing so, they create a new problem: certifying…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Internet, Higher Education, Computer Software
Critical Thinking in a Collaborative Online PBL Tutorial
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Schell, Robyn; Kaufman, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
The web has the potential to offer an environment that can support standardized medical education to students dispersed in time or place and, in the process, respond to reduced availability of patients for practice. This exploratory article describes how we evaluated critical thinking in an online collaborative Problem-based Learning (PBL)…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Patients, Critical Thinking