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The WebQuest: constructing creative learning
Julie Sanford1, Judith Townsend-Rocchiccioli, Donna Trimm
1Adult Health Department, College of Nursing, University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36688, USA. jsanford@usouthal.edu
Abstract:
An exciting expansion of online educational opportunities is occurring in nursing. The use of a WebQuest as an inquiry-based learning activity can offer considerable opportunity for nurses to learn how to analyze and synthesize critical information. A WebQuest, as a constructivist, inquiry-oriented strategy, requires learners to use higher levels of thinking as a means to analyze and apply complex information, providing an exciting online teaching and learning strategy. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all of the information learners work with comes from the web. This article provides an overview of the WebQuest as a teaching strategy and provides examples of its use.
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