To be Lost and to be a Loser Through the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 249-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Limberg ◽  
Mikael Alexandersson ◽  
Annika Lantz-Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
School System ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Knowledge Formation ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Democratic Knowledge ◽  
The Web

The purpose of this chapter is to present and discuss findings from a study of students’ information seeking and use for a learning assignment. The overall interest is to describe the coherence between differences in the quality of students’ information seeking and the quality of their learning outcomes and to relate this to issues of information literacy in the Knowledge Society. The study was framed within a sociocultural perspective of learning and adopted an ethnographic approach. Analysis of data resulted in the identification of two major categories of competences related to information seeking and knowledge formation, one of which involves serious shortcomings in meaningful learning through information seeking. There is little evidence that ICT conclusively supports the development of new knowledge in terms of seeing the world differently. Conclusions are that the school system tends to produce ‘information illiterates’ which may entail unwanted consequences for both individuals and for maintaining a democratic Knowledge Society.

scholarly journals PREDICTION OF DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEB PAGE BY HTML PARSER

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Satinder Kaur ◽  
Sunil Gupta
Keyword(s):  
User Interaction ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Automated Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Web

Inform plays a very important role in life and nowadays, the world largely depends on the World Wide Web to obtain any information. Web comprises of a lot of websites of every discipline, whereas websites consists of web pages which are interlinked with each other with the help of hyperlinks. The success of a website largely depends on the design aspects of the web pages. Researchers have done a lot of work to appraise the web pages quantitatively. Keeping in mind the importance of the design aspects of a web page, this paper aims at the design of an automated evaluation tool which evaluate the aspects for any web page. The tool takes the HTML code of the web page as input, and then it extracts and checks the HTML tags for the uniformity. The tool comprises of normalized modules which quantify the measures of design aspects. For realization, the tool has been applied on four web pages of distinct sites and design aspects have been reported for comparison. The tool will have various advantages for web developers who can predict the design quality of web pages and enhance it before and after implementation of website without user interaction.

Curriculum and Evaluation in Outcome-Based Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5620-5625
Author(s):  
Dr. Gurudutta P Japee, Dr. Preeti Oza
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Outcome Based Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Democratic Knowledge

The “Outcome-Based Education” (OBE) model is being adopted at a fast pace in education institutions. it's considered an enormous breakthrough to enhance education across the world . Outcome-based education (OBE) may be a student-centered instruction model that focuses on measuring student performance through outcomes. Outcomes include knowledge, skills, and attitudes. there's a hidden contradiction within the projection and implementation of the OBE. One results in Multidisiciplinarity and therefore the other results in OBE. At first, we expect freedom and in other structured progress is predicted . One results in democratic knowledge and therefore the other results in capitalist knowledge management. Our education is sort of a lady with over ornaments who is unable to steer simply because of the load she carries of the ornaments. Technology silences the mind and not questioning a mind and thus this information society or knowledge society is ignorant and this may come whenever and wherever we mention mass education and not class education. This paper discusses the necessity and importance of curriculum formation and enhancing evaluation within the Outcome Bases education –OBE

Complementary Information Literacy Training Practices in University Teaching and Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Corrado Petrucco ◽  
Massimo Ferrante
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Metacognitive Processes ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
The University

Students now have information processing behaviors characterized by rapid shifts in attention, less reflection and failure to deploy metacognitive processes, preferring activities that bring immediate rewards for their information needs, even if the quality of the information they obtain is low. Consequently, they run into significant difficulties in the selection and critical evaluation of the information they find during university learning activities. This article presents two information literacy training initiatives addressing these issues at the University of Padova (Italy): one in a course in educational technologies offered as part of a second-cycle degree program, and the other in two of the university library system's training facilities. The training workshops sought to be complementary, covering both the search engine and the library OPAC approach to information seeking.

Web Information Resources Vis-à-Vis Traditional Information Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 528-540
Author(s):  
John D. D’Ambra ◽  
Nina Mistillis
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Prior Use ◽  
The Web

This chapter considers the change in information seeking behaviour of tourists as a result of the increased use of the World Wide Web as an information resource in the context of information services provided by visitor information centres (VICs). The theoretical approach adopts the model of expectation-disconfirmation effects on Web customer satisfaction. The chapter proposes that visitor information centres are analogous to an information system and that the user experience of visiting the centre can partially be explained by users perception of the information quality of information resources used at the centre and a prior use of the Web. The research proposition explored in the reported research is that a priori usage of the Web may influence tourists’ perceptions of the information services provided by visitor information centres. In order to investigate this proposition a survey was conducted at the Sydney visitor information centre resulting in 519 responses. The analysis of the data collected, using structural equation modeling, found that perceived information quality of staff and brochures used at the centre explained 63% of the variance of the user experience at the centre, a prior use of the Web did not explain any of the variance. The implications for VICs’ strategic information resource management to meet visitor needs are discussed.

A Proposed Template for the Evaluation of Web Design Strategies

2009 ◽  
pp. 293-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Xanthidis ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Paris Argyrides
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Design ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Web

This chapter is the result of a two years effort to design a template aiming at standardizing, as much as such a task is feasible, the evaluation of Web sites. It is the product of a few publications in international conferences and journals. A thorough review of the international literature on the subject led the authors to conclude there is a very large number of opinions, thoughts and criteria from different professionals involved, directly or indirectly, with the process of designing a good Web site. To make matters even more complicated there are a number of different terms used by various scholars, scientists and professionals around the world that often refer to similar, if not the same, attributes of a Web site. However, it seems that all these differences could boil down to a systematic approach, here called evaluation template, of 53 points that the design strategies of the Web sites should be checked against. This template was tested on a significant number (232) of Web sites of Greek companies and proved it can be used to evaluate the quality of Web sites not only by technology experts but by non-experts alike. The evaluation template, suggested here, is by no means the solution to the problem of standardizing the process of evaluating a Web site but looking at other work done on the subject worldwide it is a step ahead.

scholarly journals LITERASI INFORMASI SEJAK DINI: PENGETAHUAN BARU BAGI ANAK USIA DINI

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Yasir Riady
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Childhood Literacy ◽  
Human Intellect

The golden age of children aged 0 to 8 years is a phase in which children begin to know the world and will determine how it will grow, develop, live and move on through life. This step of life will take place only once in human life, as well as the growth rate of rapid growth to reach about 50 % the capacity of the human intellect has occurred when the age of 4 years, 80 % occurred when the age of 8, and 100 % when the child reaches the age of 8-18 years, means such a vulnerable age in the elementary age child development. One of the things that must be understood for the development of early childhood literacy is the ability of information that must be developed early on, it can help children to have the skills and ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create new knowledge, use it and communicate it in a series of problem solving at hand. This paper describes the importance of information literacy as an initial stage for the child to progress in his new knowledge, the organization of early childhood education by looking at the quality and the added ability to make information literacy prior knowledge of the child so that the child develops to become intelligent, wise and noble.

scholarly journals Posing the million dollar question: What happens after graduation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison J. Head
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
And Training ◽  
Literacy Research

This paper reflects on the increase of information literacy research about the workplace and lifelong learning during the past 10 years. Librarians have long held that lifelong learning is the goal of information literacy instruction and training, but until the last decade, there has been a paucity of research about the information-seeking behaviour of students after they graduate. The origins and drivers of this shift in the research agenda are examined, drawing on US research studies by Project Information Literacy (PIL), and related research from around the world. Key takeaways from this body of work are discussed in addition to the implications findings have for academic librarians teaching and working with university students. Directions for future research are identified and discussed.

Solving Accessibility and Other Problems in School and Classroom Web Sites

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleborne D. Maddux
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The Internet and the World Wide Web are growing at unprecedented rates. More and more teachers are authoring school or classroom web pages. Such pages have particular potential for use in rural areas by special educators, children with special needs, and the parents of children with special needs. The quality of many of these pages leaves much to be desired. All web pages, especially those authored by special educators should be accessible for people with disabilities. Many other problems complicate use of the web for all users, whether or not they have disabilities. By taking some simple steps, beginning webmasters can avoid these problems. This article discusses practical solutions to common accessibility problems and other problems seen commonly on the web.

Web-Based Systems and Performance Testing

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
B. M. Subraya
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Dimensional Change ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Web ◽  
Growing Population

For many years, the World Wide Web (Web) functioned quite well without any concern about the quality of performance. The designers of the Web page, as well as the users were not much worried about the performance attributes. The Web, in the initial stages of development, was primarily meant to be an information provider rather than a medium to transact business, into which it has grown. The expectations from the users were also limited only to seek the information available on the Web. Thanks to the ever growing population of Web surfers (now in the millions), information found on the Web underwent a dimensional change in terms of nature, content, and depth.

scholarly journals An integrated model highlighting information literacy and knowledge formation in information behaviour

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
Samuel Kelechukwu Ibenne ◽  
Boyka Simeonova ◽  
Janet Harrison ◽  
Mark Hepworth
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Model ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Knowledge Formation ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Literature Base

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review key models of people’s information behaviour (IB) exploring the integration of the concepts of information literacy (IL) and knowledge in their designs. Scholarly perspectives portray IL as providing individuals with capacity for good information practices that result in generating new knowledge. It is surprising that this important perspective is not reflected in the reviewed IB models. This paper contributes to the literature base by proposing a new model highlighting IL and knowledge as important concepts within the IB discourse. Design/methodology/approach A discourse of the integration of IL and knowledge, which are integral factors, associated with IB, in selected IB models. Findings Identifying a need for information and understanding its context is an IL attribute. IL underpins IB in providing awareness of information sources; how to search and use information appropriately for solving information needs and leveraging generated new knowledge. The generation of new knowledge results from using information, in a process that combines with sense-making and adaption. Correspondingly, the knowledge that develops, increases capability for sense-making and adaptation of information to suit various contexts of need, iteratively. Originality/value A new model of IB; the causative and outcome factors of information behaviour (COFIB) is proposed. COFIB stresses that IL and knowledge are prominent factors within the general framework of people’s IB. The model emphasises knowledge generation as the outcome of IB, applied in solving problems within specific contexts.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document