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Rodrigues, Sergio Assis; dos Santos, Rodrigo Pereira; Arnaud, Lucas; de Souza, Jano Moreira – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
The advance of mobile industry and research has expanded e-learning in order to support an efficient and effective educational process. However, the promised benefits are as much attractive as the existing difficulties and barriers. In this paper, we intend to identify and summarize the critical factors in mobile learning through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Online Searching, Literature Reviews
Boulton, Alex – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
Corpora have multiple affordances, not least for use by teachers and learners of a foreign language (L2) in what has come to be known as "data-driven learning" or DDL. The corpus and concordance interface were originally conceived by and for linguists, so other users need to adopt the role of "language researcher" to make the most of them. Despite…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Data
Renz, Jan; Staubitz, Thomas; Meinel, Christoph – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been one of the major trend topics of the last years within the e-learning community. Many companies, such as Coursera, edX and Udacity, launched MOOCs offering a broad range of topics. In this paper, the authors will take a look at the mobile support of different MOOC providers. Use cases and benefits of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Access to Education
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Metka Kordigel Aberšek; Kosta Dolenc; Andrej Flogie; Ana Koritnik – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
This study describes a research focused on science teachers' evaluation of natural science literacy of research and comprehension competence in their students. Natural science literacy of research and comprehension competence is defined as an essential part of science literacy -- as a competence to find, evaluate and use science knowledge stored…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Research, Online Searching
Cavus, Nadire; Alpan, Kezban – Online Submission, 2010
The importance of information is increasing in the information age that we are living in with internet becoming the major information resource for people with rapidly increasing number of documents. This situation makes finding information on the internet without web search engines impossible. The aim of the study is revealing most widely used…
Descriptors: Expertise, Search Engines, Engines, Computer Science
Shafat, Gabriel; Levin, Ilya – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This paper deals with two types of logical problems--recognition problems and reverse engineering problems, and with the interrelations between these types of problems. The recognition problems are modeled in the form of a visual representation of various objects in a common pattern, with a composition of represented objects in the pattern.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Search Strategies
Hijazi, Sam – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2004
The information age along with the exponential increase in information technology has brought an unexpected amount of information. The endeavor to sort and extract a meaning from the massive amount of data has become a challenging task to many educators and managers. This research is an attempt to collect the most common suggestions to reduce the…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Technology, Internet, Stress Variables
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Colaric, Susan M.; Fine, Bethann; Hofmann, William – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
There is a wealth of information available on the World Wide Web that can assist pre-service teachers in their course studies. Yet observation of students in a technology integration class indicated that students were not able to find resources efficiently or reliably. The purpose of this study was to establish a baseline of what undergraduate,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Literacy, Search Engines