Interaction in Online Courses for Teacher Education: Subject Matter and Pedagogy

Raven McCrory; Ralph Putnam; Amanda Jansen

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 2 (March 2008) pp. 155–180

This article explores results from a research project studying teacher learning and faculty teaching in two online courses for teachers in a master's degree program. We focus on the interactions among students in online small-group discussions. We...

Topics: Community, Interaction, Mathematics, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Professional Development, eLearning, Collaboration, Teaching Methods

The Use of Relevance Feedback on the Web: Implications for Web IR System Design

Bernard J. Jansen; Amanda Spink; Tefko Saracevic

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 550–555

We conducted a transaction log analysis of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Approximately 2,500 (approximately 5%) of these queries were from the use of relevance feedback. Given the high level of research...

Use of Query Reformulation and Relevance Feedback by Excite Users

Amanda Spink; Bernard J. Jansen; H Cenk Ozmultu

Internet Research Vol. 10, No. 4 (2000) pp. 317–28

Examines the use of query reformulation and particularly the use of relevance feedback by users of the Excite Web search engine. Discusses results that show limited use of query reformulation and relevance feedback; identifies the most common...

Searching the Web: The Public and Their Queries

Amanda Spink; Dietmar Wolfram; Major B. J. Jansen; Tefko Saracevic

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 52, No. 3 (2001) pp. 226–34

Reports findings from a study of searching behavior by over 200,000 users of the Excite search engine. Analysis of over one million queries revealed most people use few search terms, few modified queries, view few Web pages, and rarely use advanced...