Learning and Training to Search

Lucas, Wendy T.; Topi, Heikki

doi:10.1007/1-4020-4014-8_11

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“…The complexities of interactive searching resulting in Phase II were unanticipated. Participants reflected the observations of Wendy Lucas and Heikki Topi who have proposed that searchers often do not realize that their search skills are weak, have little patience with learning new skills, rely on web search engines that promise the best possible retrievals and tend to avoid searches that go beyond a simple search (Lucas and Topi 2005). Clearly, personal biases along with the lack of experience and training with ARTstor and JSToR were exposed during the study.…”

Section: Summary Of the Research Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Technology and the Image

2020

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This book engages with the impact of the pervasive spread of digital networked technologies on the way images are archived, circulated and understood. It follows on from a series by the organization Computers and the History of Art (CHArt). In 2005, Will Vaughan, one of CHArt's founding members, identified a 'revolution that affects all our activities and not one that simply leads to the establishment of a new discipline to set alongside others' (2005: 2). Among developments in social media at the time was the creation of YouTube. Other events that have had wide-ranging transformative effects from around the same period were the launch of Facebook and the formation of the company, Google. Anna Bentkowska-Kafel has proposed that, from within art history, there has been a tendency to understand the impact of digital technologies as creating a distinct discipline (2015: 59). To the extent this is true it leads to the impacts of technological changes being underestimated. Disciplinary cores are not immune from such developments. Engaging with the changes by proposing, for example, the emergence of digital art history could be seen as part of a 'formulaic assimilation of various "new art histories" that have largely expanded the ground of existing canons and orthodoxies rather than offering substantive alternatives to the status quo' (Preziosi 2009: 489). By contrast, the approach that inspired the inception of this volume sees technological developments, which affect the ways that images are disseminated and analyzed, as bringing about fundamental changes to the humanities that engage with the visual sphere.The core of the work gathered together in this volume was originally presented at conferences organized by CHArt to discuss the interaction between the study and practice of art and developments in information and communication technologies. It has been complemented by a selection of additional invited chapters that reflect an engagement with culture in terms of that which, 'contains an impulse toward action: it is what is "done and practiced" (Busche 2000: 70 cited in Krämer and Bredekamp 2013: 21). The focus is on the impact technologies have on the creation of knowledge and its communication through reciprocal relationships

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Culture, Technology and the Image

2020

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“…Thus in addition to metadata (primarily annotation) organisation we acquaint our students with search strategies [ 25 ]. With the appropriate search terms and keywords, using a thesaurus, knowing where to find “full text” sources and with sufficient “manual labour” we can already make very effective searches, which, successful as they may be, are not nearly enough [ 26 ] {N}{1}; {IT}{1}.…”

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The Internet as a New Tool in the Rehabilitation Process of Patients—Education in Focus

Forczek

Makra

Sik-Lányi

et al. 2015

IJERPH

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In the article we deal with the rehabilitation of patients using information technology, especially Internet support. We concentrate on two main areas in the IT support of rehabilitation: one of them is the support for individual therapy, the other one is providing patients with information, which is the basic step in emphasising individual responsibility. In the development of rehabilitation programmes, the knowledge of the IT professional and the therapist, in the IT support of web guidance, medical expertise plays the primary role. The degree of assistance involved in the rehabilitation process depends on the IT knowledge of medical (general practitioner, nursing staff) professionals as well. The necessary knowledge required in healing and development processes is imparted to professionals by a special (full-time) university training. It was a huge challenge for us to teach web-based information organisation skills to doctors and nurses, and it is also a complex task to put forward such an IT viewpoint to information specialists in order to create the foundations of the cooperation between IT and healthcare professionals.

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“…Jansen, Spink and Saracevic, 2000;Lazonder, 2000;Nicholas, Huntington, Williams and Dobrowolski, 2006), and attempts have been made to develop methods to improve matters (e.g. Lucas and Topi, 2005;Miller, Chabot and Messina, 2009;Walton and Hepworth, 2011).…”

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Information literacy in adult returners to Higher Education: student experiences in a university pre-entry course in a UK university

Anderson

Johnston²,

McDonald³

2013

LIR

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This paper reports a qualitative investigation of the experiences of 18 students taking a year long, part-time pre-entry course designed to help participants choose a course of study and develop confidence in their ability to study at first year university standard. The particular focus for the research was information literacy, and the study sought to illuminate students’ reasoning underlying their information use. It was found that interviewees expressed greater confidence in the veracity of textbooks than websites, but that this contrast appeared to be based on a relatively unsophisticated epistemology. The interviews also suggested that students’ metacognitive awareness and control, particularly over the critical thinking processes by which candidate information is selected or rejected for study, were somewhat weak. The core characteristics of information literacy for this group are discussed and suggestions for follow-up studies and interventions to assist in improving matters are provided.

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Learning and Training to Search

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Culture, Technology and the Image

Culture, Technology and the Image

The Internet as a New Tool in the Rehabilitation Process of Patients—Education in Focus

Information literacy in adult returners to Higher Education: student experiences in a university pre-entry course in a UK university

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