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Rhoades, Emily B.; Irani, Tracy; Telg, Ricky; Myers, Brian E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2008
With Internet usage in the United States at an all-time high, information technology use in education has continued to increase. Research has shown that many students are utilizing these materials to search out information and assist with completing class assignments. Many college students have described the Internet as a functional tool that…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Student Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Search Engines
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Puustjärvi, Juha; Pöyry, Päivi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2006
Information retrieval in the context of virtual universities deals with the representation, organization, and access to learning objects. The representation and organization of learning objects should provide the learner with an easy access to the learning objects. In this article, we give an overview of the ONES system, and analyze the relevance…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies, Search Engines
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Zhuang, Yueting; Zhang, Xiafen; Lu, Weiming; Wu, Fei – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
Chinese brush calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy and a high art of scholarship. It is still popular in Chinese banners, newspaper mastheads, university names, and celebration gifts. There are Web sites that try to help people enjoy and learn Chinese calligraphy. However, there lacks advanced services such as content-based retrieval or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Handwriting, Writing Instruction
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Botte, Alexander – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article reports on methodological approaches to evaluate the relevance and quality of educational research publications. In the first section it focuses on the ISI Social Science Citation Index and shows that this standard instrument for bibliometric measurement is insufficient for the representation of European educational research. In the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation, Social Sciences, Program Proposals
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Teague-Rector, Susan; Ghaphery, Jimmy – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
Academic libraries customize, support, and provide access to myriad information systems, each with complex graphical user interfaces. The number of possible information entry points on an academic library Web site is both daunting to the end-user and consistently challenging to library Web site designers. Faced with the challenges inherent in…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Information Systems, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
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Sasaki, Shiori; Watagoshi, Kiku; Takano, Kosuke; Hirashima, Kazuo; Kiyoki, Yasushi – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of music courseware that features a music search system that uses impression keywords. The paper applies the courseware to "Kansei" (sensibility) development for elementary and junior high school students. The objectives of this courseware are to cultivate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Markland, Margaret – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2006
This study investigates the efficiency of the Google search engine at retrieving items from 26 UK Institutional Repositories, covering a wide range of subject areas. One item is chosen from each repository and four searches are carried out: two keyword searches and two full title searches, each using both Google and then Google Scholar. A further…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Users (Information)
Branzburg, Jeffrey – Technology & Learning, 2006
The Internet is a natural place to look for images that teachers can use in lessons and students can use in projects and assignments. Google, Yahoo, AltaVista--many of these popular search engines offer image searching. Usually there is a tab to click at the top of the page to select image searching; just enter a search term and go! However, this…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Internet, Search Engines, Web Sites
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Watters, Carolyn; Amoudi, Ghada – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discussion of Web queries with geospatial dimensions focuses on an algorithm that assigns location coordinates dynamically to Web sites based on the URL. Describes a prototype search system that uses the algorithm to re-rank search engine results for queries with a geospatial dimension, thus providing an alternative ranking order for search engine…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Geography, Search Engines, Web Sites
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Vila, Joaquin; Lim, Billy; Anajpure, Archana – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2004
The most common interaction with the Web is through the ubiquitous browser using visual interfaces. Most search engines use traditional visual interfaces to interact with its users. However, for certain applications and users it is desirable to have other modes of interaction with the Web. Current interfaces limit the mobility of the user and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Internet, Search Engines, Search Strategies
Young, Terrence E., Jr. – School Library Journal, 2004
Subject specific databases, or vortals (vertical portals), are databases that provide highly detailed research information on a particular topic. They are the smallest, most focused search tools on the Internet and, in recent years, they've been on the rise. Currently, more of the so-called "mainstream" search engines, subject directories, and…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Directories, Databases, Search Engines
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Although there are many news search engines on the Web, finding the news items one wants can be challenging. Choosing appropriate search terms is one of the biggest challenges. Unless one has seen the article that one is seeking, it is often difficult to select words that were used in the headline or text of the article. The limited archives of…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Search Engines, Internet, Web Sites
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Shroeder, Barbara A. – AACE Journal, 2007
This research was undertaken to study and improve the marketing efforts of the Department of Educational Technology (EDTECH) at Boise State University, recognizing the need to generate revenues based upon the new self-support structure instituted at the university and EDTECH Department. In investigating the marketing opportunities for the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Student Recruitment, Search Engines, Web Sites
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Moore, Julie A.; Chae, Boyoung – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
The purpose of this study is to understand how beginning teachers actually utilize online resources in their everyday teaching contexts. Using a qualitative interview study design, the researchers investigated beginning teachers' use of online resources in three dimensions: professional tasks, emotional/personal support, and teaching practice. The…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Engines, Beginning Teachers, Online Searching
Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Fullerton, California--College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles. But when it comes to one kind of work they are required to do in college--namely, academic research--they can be inept. Too often, college officials say, students rely…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Journal Articles, Search Engines, Online Catalogs
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