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Visualizing Online Search Processes for Information Literacy Education

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Information Experience and Information Literacy (ECIL 2023)

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Online searching happens today mostly on personal devices and through personalized accounts. Information Literacy and online searching education suffer from the invisibility of online searching behaviors, which makes process-oriented feedback virtually impossible in class. Thanks to the instructional deployment of insights and technologies developed in a research project, we designed and delivered a class session based on the visualization of the students’ search processes, involving 535 secondary school students and 16 teachers. The analysis of the data collected via a post-session survey that included both quantitative and qualitative items along with feedback from the teachers provides initial evidence of the effectiveness of this novel approach.

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  1. Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Locarno, Switzerland

    Luca Botturi, Loredana Addimando & Chiara Beretta

  2. Pädagogische Hochschule Schwyz, Goldau, Switzerland

    Martin Hermida

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Université Gustav Eiffel, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  4. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Yurdagül Ünal

  5. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    İpek Şencan

  6. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

  7. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  8. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  9. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Botturi, L., Hermida, M., Addimando, L., Beretta, C. (2024). Visualizing Online Search Processes for Information Literacy Education. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Experience and Information Literacy. ECIL 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2043. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52998-6_24

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