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By Waleed PD Mahdini
Brunei-Muara - Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Associate Professor Dr David Prescott recently conducted research work with principal lecturers and librarians from the Central TAFE network of campuses in Perth, Western Australia.
The principal lecturers represented a variety of academic and professional background while the librarians were discipline specialists from the various libraries of the Central TAFE network.
The research required the participants to use 'an Internet search method developed by Dr Prescott, which helps develop students' Internet related Information literacy skills and improve their ability to use the information they find effectively and appropriately.
Working with the search method allowed the senior academics to experience a technique that their students can use. Following the `trial' of the method, the participants complete a questionnaire about their perceptions of its usefulness and potential. An open discussion completed the data collection for this research.
In February 2007, Dr Prescott conducted similar work with Cambodian teachers at Cambodia's Royal University of Phnom Penh. The findings from the two sets of participants will be used to modify and strengthen the Internet search method.
He pointed out that this kind work is increasingly important as the amount of information the Internet makes available is frequently problematic - there is so much that students often find it overwhelming rather than instructive. Research conducted at UBD by Dr Prescott and Patricia Prescott has revealed that tertiary students often lack the Information Literacy skills needed to deal with the vast array of material they find when searching the Internet.-- Courtesy of The Brunei Times
By Waleed PD Mahdini
Brunei-Muara - Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Associate Professor Dr David Prescott recently conducted research work with principal lecturers and librarians from the Central TAFE network of campuses in Perth, Western Australia.
The principal lecturers represented a variety of academic and professional background while the librarians were discipline specialists from the various libraries of the Central TAFE network.
The research required the participants to use 'an Internet search method developed by Dr Prescott, which helps develop students' Internet related Information literacy skills and improve their ability to use the information they find effectively and appropriately.
Working with the search method allowed the senior academics to experience a technique that their students can use. Following the `trial' of the method, the participants complete a questionnaire about their perceptions of its usefulness and potential. An open discussion completed the data collection for this research.
In February 2007, Dr Prescott conducted similar work with Cambodian teachers at Cambodia's Royal University of Phnom Penh. The findings from the two sets of participants will be used to modify and strengthen the Internet search method.
He pointed out that this kind work is increasingly important as the amount of information the Internet makes available is frequently problematic - there is so much that students often find it overwhelming rather than instructive. Research conducted at UBD by Dr Prescott and Patricia Prescott has revealed that tertiary students often lack the Information Literacy skills needed to deal with the vast array of material they find when searching the Internet.-- Courtesy of The Brunei Times
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