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Bradley, Phil – 2002
This handbook provides information on how Internet search engines and related software and utilities work and how to use them in order to improve search techniques. The book begins with an introduction to the Internet. Part 1 contains the following chapters that cover mining the Internet for information: "An Introduction to Search…
Descriptors: Databases, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Information Technology
Chan, Lois Mai; Zeng, Marcia Lei – 2002
The heterogeneous environment of information retrieval on the World Wide Web has brought the recognition for the need of interoperability among diverse systems to the fore. In subject retrieval, users encounter not only different vocabularies and schemes, but also different languages. As a result, there has been a flourish of projects in the last…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Internet, Knowledge Representation
Lupia, Arthur; Philpot, Tasha S. – 2002
Many young adults are not politically active. Since 1972, their participation and interest levels have declined not only in absolute terms but also relative to other voting-age groups. This paper examines how the Internet can reverse this trend. It focuses on how leading news and political information Web sites affected young adults during the…
Descriptors: Internet, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Presidential Campaigns (United States)
Moffett, David – 2003
A longitudinal study has investigated the merit of using online Message Boards and online student expertise during practicum experiences for the past three academic years. First-year results provided data that suggested extending conversations online among practicum students was beneficial to students. In year 2, in which eight students…
Descriptors: Internet, Longitudinal Studies, Online Systems, Practicums
Serdiukov, Peter, Comp. – 2000
This paper presents several samples from a Thesaurus of educational technology (ET) terms that is based on the analysis of recent publications (journal articles, conference papers, and books), various related texts, and Internet databases. The Thesaurus pulls together all the knowledge acquired in the development of ET from 1990 through 1999, to…
Descriptors: Education, Educational Technology, Information Industry, Information Technology
Rajgopal, Jayant; Bidanda, Bopaya; Shuman, Larry J. – 1998
In recent years there has been a strong interest on the part of universities, particularly in Latin America and Southeast Asia, to increase the percentage of their engineering faculty with doctoral degrees. Since there are relatively few doctoral programs in engineering in these countries, many universities would like to upgrade their current…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
2000
The border between fact and fiction becomes blurred in legend, stories which themselves have a history, and in their evolving shape they carry the imprint of all the hands that passed them. Through the Internet, students can track the growth of a legend like that of King Arthur, from its emergence in the so-called Dark Ages to its arrival on the…
Descriptors: Films, Internet, Language Arts, Legends
Rothstein, Russell I.; McKnight, Lee – 1996
Cost models representing equipment, services, software, and training needs are presented for evaluating the total cost of fully connecting K-12 schools to a national information infrastructure (NII). Analysis indicate that the baseline service required for connecting to the NII will cost $9.4 to $22.0 billion in one-time costs with annual…
Descriptors: Communications, Cost Estimates, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Needs
Collie, Kate; Mitchell, Dan; Murphy, Lawrence – 2001
Online counseling is a growing means of interaction for counselors and clients. This paper presents an interview among three counselors who simultaneously describe and demonstrate skills they use in their e-mail counseling practices. The interviewer and the interviewees all have been involved in the development of online counseling. The skills…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 2001
The Law section of the proceedings contains the following 6 selected papers: "Is the Public Interest Meaningless? Levels of Meaning and Ambiguity in the Public Interest Standard" (Philip M. Napoli); "An 'Unholy Alliance': The Law of Media Ride-Alongs" (Karen M. Markin); "Is Internet Service Provider Immunity Growing? An…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Disclosure, Higher Education
Jones, Rebecca, Ed.; Nixon, Carol, Comp.; Burmood, Jennifer, Comp. – 2000
This publication contains presentations, notes, and illustrative materials used in the annual KMWorld Conference and Exposition, "Knowledge Nets: Defining and Driving the E-Enterprise." Presentations include: "Knowledge Management Applied to the Manufacturing Enterprise" (Matthew Artibee); "Ryder Knowledge Center: Building…
Descriptors: Conferences, Development, Information Management, Information Science
Cooper, James W.; Viswanathan, Mahesh; Byron, Donna; Chan, Margaret – 2001
The study has applied speech recognition and text-mining technologies to a set of recorded outbound marketing calls and analyzed the results. Since speaker-independent speech recognition technology results in a significantly lower recognition rate than that found when the recognizer is trained for a particular speaker, a number of post-processing…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Darrah, Brenda – 2001
Researchers for small businesses, which may have no access to expensive databases or market research reports, must often rely on information found on the Internet, which can be difficult to find. Although current conventional Internet search engines are now able to index over on billion documents, there are many more documents existing in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval
Schneider, Mark; Buckley, Jack – 2002
One of the most contentious policy areas in the United States today is the expansion of school choice. Although many dimensions of parental choice behavior have been analyzed, perhaps the most enduring questions center on the aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Internet, Parent Attitudes
Edirisooriya, Gunapala – 1999
The transfer of information from a Web site to personal files or documents is surprisingly easy if the right techniques are used. The portability, utility, and clarity of this information, especially when the user intends to file it and use it in future applications, is assured only when the appropriate commands are followed. This paper describes…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, File Transfer Protocol, Information Dissemination, Internet
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