281+Lauridsen

Sourcing Information from Cyberspace: A Facilitated Experiential Exercise || Barbara Lauridsen, National University, Hawaii, United States, blauridsen@gmail.com || Abstract: This conference forum nurtures an experience for virtual learners in a web-enabled visual learning environment for several representative assignments that require performing original research. This topic explores problem solving in the information age using search engines. To leverage the author’s experience in tracking down information for business decision about technology solutions, the first day included a lesson for conducting research, a lesson for locating, retrieving and qualifying information retrieved in cyberspace. This offers as a specific illustration with the broader context of best practices for facilitating web enabled hybrid online courses, addressing the academic protocol for citing sources according to the accepted standards. The scope of the hands on exercise guides active participants in accessing the major search engines, other search functions within commercial sites, electronic libraries and government sources of data and demonstrates best practices for taking responsibility for correctly siting sources when composing papers and presentation. The audience is student or faculty for online courses. Participants will receive a CD with lecture slides, example white papers, lists of research site URLs, visio files for a set of models and a collection of template research papers, costs sheets and decision making memos. || General Session Workshop All ||
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