A feedback enabled multimedia webquest model for college public english learning

Abstract

With the rapid development of information technologies, the college English reform of China has arrived at a spot where the mature technology platform is able to support it to make every possible novel attempt. Of many experimental teaching practices, one representative Web based instructional model is WebQuest. In this article, we outline a WebQuest model designed for college public English learning. The novel aspect of this model includes a student feedback module with the WebQuest's Resource component. The students are able to give score ratings to the existing resource items, or recommend new resource items. These information will then be taken into account when refining the design of the same WebQuest project. The contribution of this proposed model is two-fold: (1) it promotes the resource reuse by applying advanced data mining methods, so as to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the WebQuest project maintenance; (2) it opens a channel to collect the thoughts and ideas from the students, so as to achieve the intelligence integration from multiple sources. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.