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How educators find educational resources online

Published: 27 June 2011 Publication History

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Search engines are mostly targeted toward the generic user but educators have specific information needs with specialized information-seeking behaviors. When designing a course, educators may create a syllabus, lecture slides, and use tools as lecture aides. These resources are scattered across a large number of websites and require time and effort in finding them. To design a useful system for educators we must understand the problems they face when they seek, use, and re-use online resources. With that in mind, the Ensemble team conducted focus groups to identify current practices and problems in locating online resources for educational purposes. The data provides better understanding of the information-seeking process of educators that can lead to better educational resource sites.

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Connexions, http://cnx.org/.
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Merlot, http://www.merlot.org.
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MIT OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.mit.edu/.

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ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2011
418 pages
ISBN:9781450306973
DOI:10.1145/1999747

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Published: 27 June 2011

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  2. educational resources
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