The correlates of Taiwan teachers' epistemological beliefs concerning Internet environments, online search strategies, and search outcomes

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-63

  Tsai, Pei Shan ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^a   Hwang, Gwo Jen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Epistemological beliefs; Information searching strategies; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVISM; EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS; INTERNET ENVIRONMENT; ONLINE SEARCH; OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS; SEARCHING STRATEGY; WEB BASED LEARNING; WEB SEARCHES;

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78649709202     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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