E-learning and information-seeking strategies:Combining Big6 and WebQuest on moodle

• Main Authors: Sia, Chong Wee, 謝章威
• Other Authors: 楊建民
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59266484516490929959

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 99 === In recent years, e-learning has developed rapidly and inquiry-based learning network such as WebQuest has become one of the most prominent and latest modes of learning and absorbing knowledge. WebQuest is a sophisticated e-learning tool in which most of the information provided to the learners comes from the web. However, the webs provided are tailor-made and carefully selected by the educators so the learners can engage in the inquiry-oriented lesson step by step and without deviating from the right course. Furthermore, many scholars has discovered that this particular pattern of learning has proven efficient for internet learners to enhance their skills in higher-order thinking, cooperative thinking as well as problem solving. Given these advantages, it is indisputable that why WebQuests is well received by both educators and learners. In view of we are living in an information society where information overloads, it is hence immensely difficult for internet users to select and process viable internet resources. In dealing with this problem, in WebQuest, it is the educators who are responsible to sieve out useful internet resources for the learners instead of leaving them alone and helpless with abundant information. With IT education has become one of the important issues of global development, it is extremely essential to cultivate internet users with such selective skill. Taiwan, in particular, has even listed IT education as one of the Seven Issues within the Grade 1-9 Curriculum. As the Grade 1-9 Curriculum and information seeking strategies are intimately related to each other, the information problem-solving process model of Big6 is thus deemed as the optimal way of cultivating one’s information literacy. Apart from guiding the internet learners with the scaffold of the inquiry-oriented learning WebQuest, my research, moreover, intends to integrate both the Big6 process model and WebQuest together in order to enhance learners’ ability in internet resources searching, processing, analyzing, displaying and application, as so to achieve the goal of the Grade 1-9 Curriculum in promoting IT education. In addition, I will develop a prototype to validate my conception of the combination between Big6 and WebQuest. The result of my research, besides indicating that Big6 can be integrated with WebQuest, has also proven that the combination’s viability on the Moodle’s platform, which I anticipate, will be facilitating both the educators and the learners in the coming future.