{"id":136,"date":"2010-11-26T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bcrlglectures\/?p=136"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:09:39","slug":"navigating-the-internet-for-learning-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bcrlglectures\/2010\/11\/26\/navigating-the-internet-for-learning-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the Internet for Learning Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Navigating the Internet for Learning Purposes:
\nWhy some novices are more successful than others<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Malinda Desjarlais, PhD<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Assistant Professor
\nUniversity of Northern British Columbia,
\nPsychology Department<\/p>\n

***Archived webcast<\/a> <\/span> <\/span><\/a>***
\nBCLA Browser report<\/a>
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Victoria<\/strong><\/span>
\nWednesday, December 1, 2010
\n1 pm \u2013 2:30 pm
\nMcPherson Library, Room 210
\nUniversity of Victoria<\/p>\n

Vancouver<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Thursday, December 2, 2010
\n2 pm \u2013 3:30 pm
\nRoom 2270, Saunder Industries Policy Room
\nSFU Harbour Front Centre
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Dr. Desjarlais investigates factors that influence decision-making when novices navigate the Internet for learning and information seeking purposes. In exploring learner and task characteristics she considers prior knowledge, motivation, self-regulatory skills, attentional control, and short-term memory capacity and assesses how these factors act as supports for novices when learning from the Internet. These characteristics are analyzed through pre-and post-testing, interviewing and by tracking learners\u2019 gaze during navigation. The use of an eyetracker has revealed differences in the selection of and attention to information within a webpage, variability in information navigation characteristics, and shifts in navigation strategies. She has extended this research by exploring differences in novices\u2019 Internet navigations related to achievement. Her presentation will be of interest to researchers and practitioners interested in Internet learning, information seeking behavior research, and imposed query searching.<\/p>\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong>
\nMalinda Desjarlais has a PhD in Psychology from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario and is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research area is in the field of human development with strong interests in cognitive development.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:<\/p>\n

Nancy E. Black (blackn@unbc.ca<\/a> ), Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca<\/a>), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca<\/a>),\u00a0 Tracie Smith (tracies@uvic.ca<\/a>), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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