Journal
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 271-290Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1315(03)00049-6
Keywords
media in education; multimedia/hypermedia systems; pedagogical issues; post-secondary education; teaching/learning strategies
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Concerns about the potentially dubious nature of online information and users' ability to evaluate it appropriately prompted this research on college students' use of Web-based information, their perceptions of information credibility, and their online verification behaviors. Two studies were conducted to address these issues. Results of the first study show that college students rely very heavily on the Web for both general and academic information, and that they expect this usage to increase over time. Results of the second study indicate that students find information to be more credible than do those from a more general adult population, across several media and considering many different types of information. Nonetheless, students verify the information they find online significantly less. Implications are discussed in light of current efforts of educators to improve Internet literacy. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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