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Navigation and Visualisation Techniques in eLearning and Internet Research

Navigation and Visualisation Techniques in eLearning and Internet Research

Sue Fenley
ISBN13: 9781615206780|ISBN10: 1615206787|EISBN13: 9781615206797
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-678-0.ch004
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Fenley, Sue. "Navigation and Visualisation Techniques in eLearning and Internet Research." Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native, edited by Martin Ebner and Mandy Schiefner, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 55-87. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-678-0.ch004

APA

Fenley, S. (2010). Navigation and Visualisation Techniques in eLearning and Internet Research. In M. Ebner & M. Schiefner (Eds.), Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native (pp. 55-87). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-678-0.ch004

Chicago

Fenley, Sue. "Navigation and Visualisation Techniques in eLearning and Internet Research." In Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native, edited by Martin Ebner and Mandy Schiefner, 55-87. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-678-0.ch004

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Abstract

Research into investigating how users navigate through internet and multimedia resources in an educational context has revealed distinct preferences in how they approach the resource, their methods of interrogating it and both the quantity and quality of the information they obtain. Using highly sophisticated software even for digital natives involves learning a series of methods or techniques for easily manoeuvring through the vast quantities of data and developing schemas to do this efficiently and accurately. This chapter analyses methods that have been used for navigating through multimedia packages, explores users’ preferences for navigation and visualisation, investigates design errors in multimedia that prevent good navigation and details newer visualisation methods and navigational tools. The chapter should give educational users a fresh perspective of issues of navigation and visualisation and allow them to develop these techniques in order to improve their use of internet and web resources and teaching materials.

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