The Information Commitments Toward Web Information Among Medical Students in Taiwan (Report)
By Educational Technology & Society
- Release Date: 2009-01-01
- Genre: Computers
Description
Introduction Internet technology has changed not only our way of living but also the methods of learning in educational practice. Internet use has increased progressively over the last decade, and information searching has become one of the most popular and frequent online activities (Nemoto et al., 2007; Meneses et al., 2005). One of the major usages of the Internet for learning is to search for information on the Web for some academic goals. Information seeking is the process by which users find and select proper information resources in order to enhance their knowledge level (Segev et al., 2007). The Internet has also dramatically altered the worldwide use of academic publications for medical education as rich resources are available on the Internet for researchers and university students (Junni, 2007). Tsai and Tsai (2003) have claimed that in the process of information searching, learners may use various types of searching strategies to obtain information they need on the Internet. Moreover, when judging the information they have found, they may employ various standards to evaluate its accuracy and usefulness (Wu & Tsai, 2005).
