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Georgas, Helen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Federated searching was once touted as the library world's answer to Google, but ten years since federated searching technology's inception, how does it actually compare? This study focuses on undergraduate student preferences and perceptions when doing research using both Google and a federated search tool. Students were asked about their…
Descriptors: Internet, Undergraduate Students, Online Searching, Research Tools
Kickham-Samy, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The worked-example effect, an application of cognitive load theory, is a well-supported method of instruction for well-structured problems (Chandler and Sweller, 1991; Cooper and Sweller, 1987; Sweller and Cooper, 1985; Tuovinen & Sweller, 1999; Ward and Sweller, 1990). One limitation is expertise-reversal effect, where advanced students…
Descriptors: Databases, Electronic Libraries, Search Engines, Search Strategies
Park, S. Joon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The need for emotional interaction has already influenced various disciplines and industries, and online museums represent a domain where providing emotional interactions could have a significant impact. Today, online museums lack the appropriate affective and hedonic values necessary to engage art enthusiasts on an emotional level. To address…
Descriptors: Museums, Art, Art Education, Web Sites
Bhatia, Sumit – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Online discussion forums have become popular in recent times. They provide a platform for people from different parts of the world sharing a common interest to come together and topics of mutual interest and seek solutions to their problems. There are hundreds of thousands of internet forums containing tens of millions of discussion threads and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Internet
Knowledge Quest, 2011
For those who are experiencing a lack of creative inspiration within their school library program but are ready to "turn a page" in their career or school library program, they may head to Minneapolis to attend one of the many great preconference workshops. This article presents and describes preconference workshops design to rid…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Workshops, Library Services, Librarians
Franken, Margaret – Language Learning Journal, 2014
The use of online language corpora in L2 teaching and learning is gaining momentum largely because corpora are an easily accessed source of language input that potentially provide rich and authentic lexico-grammatical data. This can be of particular use for students' writing as its incorporation can enhance the appearance of native-like fluency.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Second Language Instruction
McFadden, Paula; Taylor, Brian J.; Campbell, Anne; McQuilkin, Janice – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Context: The development of a consolidated knowledge base for social work requires rigorous approaches to identifying relevant research. Method: The quality of 10 databases and a web search engine were appraised by systematically searching for research articles on resilience and burnout in child protection social workers. Results: Applied Social…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Information Retrieval, Social Sciences, Databases
Mitchell, Erik – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
Web design is a necessarily iterative process. During the process, it can be difficult to balance the interests and focus of the library site experts and their novice users. It can also be easy to lose focus on the main goals of site use and become wrapped up in the process of design or coding or in the internal politics of site design. Just as…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Libraries, Users (Information)
Christopherson, Laura L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Increasing use of the Internet has led to a proliferation of online communication and information sharing media. These media, each with its own set of affordances and limitations, are thought to encourage new ways to communicate. Interlocutors refashion general English into abbreviated and often pictographic representations of existing concepts.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
Lang, Guido; Ceccucci, Wendy – Information Systems Education Journal, 2014
The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a global student competition in which teams are given $250 to develop and run an online advertising campaign for a business or non-profit organization over a three-week period. Despite the fact that 50,000 students have competed in the Challenge since its inception in 2008, relatively little is known about…
Descriptors: Marketing, Internet, Information Systems, Experiential Learning
Sapa, Remigiusz; Krakowska, Monika; Janiak, Malgorzata – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: The paper presents original research designed to explore and compare selected aspects of the information seeking behaviour of mathematicians (scientists and students) on the Internet. Method: The data were gathered through a questionnaire distributed at the end of 2011 and in January 2012. Twenty-nine professional mathematicians and…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Scientists, Internet, Mass Media Use
Croes, Jo-Anne V.; Visser, Melina M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
The Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) is a global, online student competition sponsored by Google. It is a prime example of an experiential learning activity that includes using real money ($250 sponsored by Google) with a real client. The GOMC has yielded compelling results in student engagement and learning objectives related to the…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Experiential Learning, Marketing
Panovics, Janos – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
The theory and practice of search algorithms related to state-space represented problems form the major part of the introductory course of Artificial Intelligence at most of the universities and colleges offering a degree in the area of computer science. Students usually meet these algorithms only in some imperative or object-oriented language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages
Bhardwaj, Anurag – ProQuest LLC, 2010
We have developed statistical techniques to improve the performance of document image search systems where the intermediate step of OCR based transcription is not used. Previous research in this area has largely focused on challenges pertaining to generation of small lexicons for processing handwritten documents and enhancement of poor quality…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Search Engines, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval
Gedzune, Inga; Gedzune, Ginta – Educational Action Research, 2013
This paper reports on a fragment from an educational action research in a teacher education setting, ascertaining the possibilities of using the online environment of google.doc for initiating pre-service teachers' discourse about the nature of inclusive relationships between individuals and the environment, and the ways of their enhancement. The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education