Novices' learning from the Internet : an exploration of navigation behaviours, learner-related factors, and mental effort

The current study was an exploration of why some novices are more successful than their peers when learning from the Internet by examining the relations among time spent with relevant information and changes in invested mental effort during Internet navigations as well as achievement. Navigation behaviours and learner characteristics were investigated as predictors of time spent with relevant information and changes in mental effort. Undergraduates (N = 85, Mage = 20 years, 5 months) searched the Internet for information corresponding to a low knowledge topic for 20 min while their eye gaze and pupil size were recorded. Pupil diameter was used as an objective, continuous measure of mental effort. Participants also completed questionnaires or computer tasks pertaining to s e l f-regulated learning characteristics (general intrinsic goal orientation and effort regulation) and cognitive factors (working memory control, distractibility and cognitive style). All analyses controlled for general mental ability, reading comprehension, topic and Internet knowledge, and overall motivation. A greater proportion of time spent with relevant information predicted higher scores on an achievement test. Interestingly, time spent with relevant information partially mediated the positive relation between the frequency of increases in invested mental effort and achievement. Surprisingly, intrinsic goal orientation was negatively related to time spent with relevant information and effort regulation was negatively related to the frequency of increases in invested mental effort. These findings have implications for supports when novices guide their own learning, especially when using the Internet.

Online Anonymity and the Kantian Publicity Principle: Can the Internet Solve the Paradox of Tyranny?

Immanuel Kant’s publicity maxim states that other-regarding actions are wrong if their maxim is not compatible with their being made public. This has the effect of forbidding dissent or rebellion against tyranny, since rebels cannot make their intentions and plans public. However, new internet technologies offer public speech from behind the “shield” of anonymity, allowing dissent to be public but preventing reprisals from tyrants. This thesis examines not only this possibility, but the value of internet-based discursive spaces for politics, their viability as a mode for political communication, and their implications for Classical and Enlightenment approaches to politics and intellectual virtue. Anonymous internet communications favour logos-based reasoning and discourse, which, in the liberal-democratic tradition, is preferable to phronesis and its attendant elitism and chauvinism. These technologies can open new vistas for liberal-democratic politics.

Automatic Preparation of ETD Material from the Internet Archive for the DSpace Repository Platform

A big challenge associated with getting an institutional repository off the ground is getting content into it. This article will look at how to use digitization services at the Internet Archive alongside software utilities that the author developed to automate the harvesting of scanned dissertations and associated Dublin Core XML files to create an ETD Portal using the DSpace platform. The end result is a metadata-rich, full-text collection of theses that can be constructed for little out of pocket cost.

La Internet en el contexto del uso de los medios de la comunicación : estudio del uso de la Internet en la zona metropolitana de Monterrey por Roman Litvine.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Comunicación) U.A.N.L.

La ciberguerrilla zapatista análisis del uso de la Internet para la difusión del Movimiento Zapatista por Irina Lotkova

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Comunicación) U.A.N.L.

Impuestos sobre servicios de acceso a internet por Julio López Reyes

Tesis (Maestría en Contaduría Pública con Especialidad en Impuestos) U.A.N.L.

Estudio sobre el contenido en Internet su influencia en el trabajo del profesionista

Tesis (Maestría en Informática Administrativa) U.A.N.L.

Investigación cuasiexperimental: El internet para la enseñanza - aprendizaje del inglés como segundo idioma

Tesis ( Maestría en Enseñanza Superior) U.A.N.L. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

La estrategia competitiva de Porter en el sector industrial naciente de Internet: un enfoque de marketing para la planeación comercial de tecnologías emergentes

[Tesis] (Maestría en Administración de Empresas] U.A.N.L.

Actitudes del profesor frente a internet como herramienta en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje

[Tesis] (Maestría en Educación Superior) U.A.N.L.

El uso de Internet como herramienta en las clases presenciales

[Tesis] (Maestría en Educación Superior con Especialidad en Enseñanza de la Lengua y la Literatura) U.A.N.L. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras

Uso de internet en los estudiantes de la Preparatoria no. 11.

Tesis (Maestría en Docencia con Orientación en Educación Media Superior) UANL, 2013.

L'Internet: un reflet de la concurrence des souverainetés

Un résumé en anglais est également disponible

La gouvernance d'Internet : un état des discussions internationales

Pietro Securo, Directeur de l'Institut francophone des technologies de l'information et de la formation (INTIF) de Paris