Teaching and learning in information retrieval

With information retrieval a growing field of research, teaching it requires new resources. This book aims to provide theoretical and practical ideas for teaching IR, a topic which has up to now suffered from a lack of literature on its pedagogical aspects

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Efthimiadis, Efthimis Nikolaos
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg, Germany ; New York: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, c2011.
Series:Information retrieval series, 31
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to teaching and learning in information retrieval
  • 2. Fostering student engagement in an online IR course
  • 3. Teaching IR: curricular consideration
  • 4. Pedagogical enhancements for information retrieval courses
  • 5. Pedagogical design and evaluation of interactive information retrieval learning environment
  • 6. Shifting contexts: relating the user, search and system in teaching IR
  • 7. A technical approach to information retrieval pedagogy
  • 8. Using multiple choice questions to assist learning for information retrieval
  • 9. Information retrieval systems evaluation: learning and teaching process
  • 10. Teaching web information retrieval to computer science students: A concrete approach and its analysis
  • 11. Is a relevant piece of information a valid one? teaching critical evaluation of online information
  • 12. Training students to evaluate search engines
  • 13. Teaching information retrieval (IR) through problem based learning (PBL)
  • 14. Educational Resource Development for Information Retrieval in a Digital Libraries Context