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      Teaching of Web Information Retrieval: Web first or IR first?

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      First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007) (TLIR)
      Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
      10 January 2007
      Information Retrieval, Web information retrieval, literature survey, student feedback, student presentations
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            Abstract

            When teaching Web Information retrieval (IR), a teacher has two alternatives: (i) to teach the classical pre-Web IR issues first and present the Web specific issues later; or (ii) to teach directly the Web IR discipline per se. The first approach has the advantages of building on prerequisite knowledge, of presenting the historical development of the discipline, and probably appears more natural to most lecturers, who have followed the historical development of the field. Conversely, the second approach has the advantage of concentrating on a more modern view of the field, and probably leads to a higher motivation in the students, since the more appealing Web issues are dealt with at course start. I will discuss these issues, I will mention the approaches followed in the (rather few) Web IR books available, I will make some comparisons with the teaching of related disciplines, and I will also summarize my experience and some feedback from my students (I have been teaching a Web IR course for two Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Information Technology at Udine University for the last two years; I had about twenty students each year; and I followed the first approach).

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            January 2007
            January 2007
            : 1-6
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            [0001]Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science

            University of Udine

            Udine, Italy http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/
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            10.14236/ewic/TLIR2007.8
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            © Stefano Mizzaro et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007), London, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007)
            TLIR
            1
            London, UK
            10 January 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
            History
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Information Retrieval,literature survey,student presentations,Web information retrieval,student feedback

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