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Peer reviewedWishart, Jocelyn – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2000
Reports results of interviews with teachers, students, and school librarians in eight United Kingdom secondary schools regarding their use of multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM. Focuses on a content analysis of their comments on how access to multimedia encyclopedias changes the way students learn, and how they perceive it affects their learning.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Encyclopedias, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Download full textPerra, Leonel L. – 1992
The purpose of this study was to determine the status of the use of computers in the schools within the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia (Canada). Thirty teachers, librarians, principals, and senior district administrators were interviewed to determine the computing background of the interviewees and how they were using…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Omaji, Alice – Computers in Libraries, 1994
Presents the results of a study of CD-ROM database use by 100 university students. The students' age, level of study, course of study, and reasons for nonuse are reported. Implications of the study, and suggestions for promoting CD-ROM use and involving faculty in raising awareness are presented. (eight references) (KRN)
Descriptors: Age, Bibliographic Databases, College Faculty, College Libraries
Peer reviewedForrest, Charles; And Others – Reference Services Review, 1989
Describes study that was designed to assess user interaction with InfoTrac, a computerized periodical index on optical disc that is accessed through workstations consisting of a microcomputer and printer. Use in three types of libraries--an undergraduate academic library, a graduate-level academic library, and a public library--is examined. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Computer Printers, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedPuttapithakporn, Somporn – RQ, 1990
Identifies problems that undergraduate searchers encountered in a search of the ERIC database on CD-ROM. Results of participant observation, questionnaires, and interviews are reported; a taxonomy of user problems is proposed that includes syntactic errors and semantic errors; and recommendations for menu selection systems, online help, and…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Higher Education, Interviews, Literature Reviews
Thomas, Patricia – 1993
The experience of novice users searching SilverPlatter's ERIC CD-ROM on the Macintosh was studied. Ten students from an introductory master's level course in library and information science were recruited as volunteer subjects. Subjects were asked to complete a search on the ERIC CD-ROM; and data were collected via observations, a think-aloud…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Educational Experience, Educational Research, Graduate Students
Oakland County Schools, Pontiac, MI. – 1991
The Teaching and Learning with Technology Project was funded by Oakland Schools, Oakland County (Michigan), in 1987 to bring together in an elementary school those technologies that will be key components of schools in the future with an instructional program designed to prepare students for the information age. The project had the following…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Educational Technology
