All the world wide web's a stage

Thornton, David E.; Kaya, Ebru

doi:10.1108/00012531311297195

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“…Both basic and higher education students increasingly prefer the Web to traditional books and journals (Smith 2012). It is therefore essential to understand how students use the Web to retrieve information (Alharbi et al 2013;Shanahan 2008;Thornton & Kaya 2013).…”

Section: Web Searching In Higher Educationmentioning

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Uncovering Web search tactics in South African higher education

Civilcharran

Hughes

Maharaj

2015

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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Background: The potential of the World Wide Web (‘the Web’) as a tool for information retrieval in higher education is beyond question. Harnessing this potential, however, remains a challenge, particularly in the context of developing countries, where students are drawn from diverse socio-economic, educational and technological backgrounds. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the Web search tactics used by postgraduate students in order to address the weaknesses of undergraduate students with regard to their Web searching tactics. This article forms part of a wider study into postgraduate students’ information retrieval strategies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus, South Africa. Method: The study utilised the mixed methods approach, employing both questionnaires (Phase 1) and structured interviews (Phase 2), and was largely underpinned by Bates’s model of information search tactics. This article reports and reflects on the findings of Phase 1, which focused on identifying the Web search tactics employed by postgraduate students. Results: Findings indicated a preference for lower-level Web search tactics, despite respondents largely self-reporting as intermediate or expert users. Moreover, the majority of respondents gained their knowledge on Web searching through experience and only a quarter of respondents have been given formal training on Web searching. Conclusion: In addition to contributing to theory, it is envisaged that this article will contribute to practice by informing the design of undergraduate training interventions to proactively address the information retrieval challenges faced by novice users. Subsequent papers will report on Phase 2 of the study.

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Section: Web Searching In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering Web search tactics in South African higher education

Civilcharran

Hughes

Maharaj

2015

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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“…According to her these forms of training rather than traditional practices meet students' expectations. Advantages of online courses are a subject which is often addressed by authors (Moreno-Pulido & Sanchez-Fernandez, 2015;Scales & Nicol & Johnson, 2014;Somoza-Fernandez, 2015;Thornton & Kaya, 2013) who especially emphasize the possibility of being able to participate in the training at a convenient time and place and in accordance with one's pace of work as well as the attractiveness of these courses because of additional audiovisual and interactive materials. These texts are mainly descriptive with recommendations regarding the best solutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

Mierzecka

2018

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Thesis/objective – The topic of this article is the influence of digital technologies on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of their users’ needs. Users’ information behaviors have changed significantly through the influence of these technologies, what can be identified in particular in students’ behaviors. Do far-reaching changes in the way in which users, in case of this article - students, interact with information cause transformations in the functioning and mission of academic libraries? On the basis of literature containing the results of researches conducted around the world an attempt was made to present the way academic libraries react to these changes and how they modify their services and resources. Research method – The first step in responding to the actual needs of users is to conduct research in this area. For this reason, the subject of the analysis in this article were publications presenting research on the users’ (students) needs in the context of using academic libraries. The next stage was to identify the texts in which the use of digital technology was discussed. The analyzed literature was selected from leading journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), and included articles which were published within the last 5 years (2013-2018) – a period in which digital technologies in most academic libraries in the world were most widely used, making changes caused by them possible to be diagnosed, and which corresponds to the information query. The results of the query contained 328 articles, 80 of them have been analyzed in detail, because they were deemed to contain the results of research on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of the needs and expectations of the students. Results/conclusions – On the basis of the analysis it can be concluded that the widespread use of digital technologies has changed functioning of academic libraries to a large extent, but these changes are not revolutionary. The way of implementing library tasks has changed, but the tasks themselves as well as the mission of an academic library have remained similar. One of the most important postulates for the future is the necessity of far-reaching personalization of the services being offered. The conducted analysis is based on the research presented in the literature, the next planned stage is verification of these conclusions in empirical research.

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“…Video tutorials are used in a range of subject fields, such as chemistry (He et al, 2012), medicine (Balslev et al, 2005;Stefanidis et al, 2007;Carson & Wilcox, 2019), and business and economics (Fulton & Fulton, 2018). The use of video tutorials is also commonplace in libraries (Weeks & Davis, 2017;Tewell, 2010), for example, teaching students about plagiarism (Thornton & Kaya, 2013). Video tutorials have also been used to teach academic writing and research skills (Engin, 2014;Bourdeau et al, 2017).…”

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Video tutorials as academic writing and research support for students of International Business

Staley¹,

Göldi²,

Nikoulina³

2020

JoAW

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Many studies have made claims for the positive effects of multimedia in education; however, there is a lack of systematic and comparable research, especially when it comes to video tutorials. This study evaluates the use and benefits of short screencast video tutorials, produced with Camtasia and published on YouTube, in preparing students for research-based writing assignments. The study employs a multi-method research design, comprising an analysis of video-tutorial viewership data from YouTube and a student questionnaire on the perceived benefits of these video tutorials. The data on how the tutorials are used, as well as the questionnaire responses, enable us to highlight which aspects of these tutorials positively affect the learning process, and importantly, how such tutorials should be adapted to be more useful. Findings indicate that the use of such tutorials is more dependent on the type of information included (e.g., theory, instructions or examples), than their length (within the range of three to six minutes). Additionally, novice, introductory-level students appear to have received greater benefit from the tutorials than students with some previous academic writing experience.

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All the world wide web's a stage

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Uncovering Web search tactics in South African higher education

Uncovering Web search tactics in South African higher education

Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

Video tutorials as academic writing and research support for students of International Business

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