Useful and Challenging Characteristics of Web-Based Training: Comparing Perceptions of U.S. and Korean Employees
Employees who participate in web-based training (WBT) often have perceptions of course effectiveness that differ from course designers. The focus of this presentation is to report those characteristics of WBT that employees of two major corporations, one in the US and one in South Korea, indicate as helpful or challenging to their success. The purpose of this study is to investigate the components of the WBT that employees recognize as helpful in their learning process and the components of WBT that students identify as challenging. To guide this research, there are three primary research questions: What WBT components do US and South Korean employees recognize as helpful in the learning process? What WBT components do US and South Korean employees recognize as challenging? How do perceptions of WBT differ among US and South Korean employees?
It's Not That Tough: Students Speak About Their Online Learning Experiences
K-12 online learning is growing in Canada and elsewhere in the world. However, the vast majority of literature is focused on practitioners and not on systematic inquiry. Even the limited published research has largely excluded the perspectives of students engaged in virtual schooling. This study examines secondary student perceptions of components of virtual schooling that were beneficial and challenging. Students largely enjoyed their virtual school courses and found the synchronous classes, the technology, and the ability to control their own learning as positive aspects of their experience. Students also found the lack of a sense of community, working during their asynchronous class time, and the asynchronous course content to be challenging; and made suggestions for improvement to each, along with advice to future virtual school students.
Searching the world wide web: an evaluation of available tools and methodologies
Abstract Search Engines and Classified Directories have become essential tools for locating information on the World Wide Web. A consequence of increasing demand, as the volume of information on the Web has expanded, has been a vast growth in the number of tools available. Each one claims to be more comprehensive, more accurate and more intuitive to use than the last. This paper attempts to organise the available tools into a number of categories, according to their information acquisition and retrieval methods, with the intention of exposing the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches. The importance and implications of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques are discussed. Description of the evolution of automated tools enables an insight into the aims of recent and future implementations