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University Students' Intention to Use Search Engines for Research Purposes: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Lavidas, Konstantinos; Achriani, Anthi; Athanassopoulos, Stavros; Messinis, Ioannis; Kotsiantis, Sotiris – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Teaching empirical educational research in higher education involves implementing a very useful web tool for bibliography/scientific literature research, a search engine specifically employed for scientific papers, such as "Google Scholar". The aim of this study is to examine undergraduate students' acceptance of technology, through…
Descriptors: College Students, Intention, Search Engines, Student Research
A Social Constructionist Approach to Teaching and Learning Vocabulary for Italian for Academic Purposes
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Xerou, Eftychia; Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi; Parmaxi, Antigoni – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This study presents the way Parmaxi and Zaphiris's (2015) social constructionist framework was used in order to teach and learn vocabulary in an Italian for Specific Academic Purposes (ISAP) tertiary course. The participants (beginner students) were guided to build in groups an artifact, i.e a specific academic vocabulary collection. To do so,…
Descriptors: Italian, Constructivism (Learning), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Evaluating and Recommending Greek Newspapers' Websites Using Clustering
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Kanellopoulos, Dimitris; Kotsiantis, Sotiris – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this work is to evaluate Greek newspaper websites using clustering and a number of criteria obtained from the Alexa search engine. Furthermore, a recommendation approach is proposed for matching Greek online newspapers with the profiles of potential readers. The paper presents the implementation and validation of a recommender…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Foreign Countries, Internet, Newspapers
Forming an Instructional Approach to Teach Web Searching Skills to Non-English Users
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Lazarinis, Fotis – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: Locating information on the internet is an important skill in the Information Society. Some recent studies showed that searching using non-English terms is a more demanding task than searching in English. Based on these observations, this paper aims to apply the Instructional System Design (ISD) methodology to analyse, design and…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Engines, Non English Speaking, Greek
Greek Academic Librarians' Perceptions of the Impact of Google on Their Role as Information Providers
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Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Balatsoukas, Panos; Siatri, Rania; Zafeiriou, Georgia; Asderi, S.; Ekizoglou; P. – Education for Information, 2008
The increased popularity of Google search engine in the daily routine in one's workplace and in the academic information seeking process is undeniable. "Googling" challenges the traditional skills of librarians as information providers and the role of library and information service provision in the digital era. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Seeking, Internet, Librarians