Teachers' Perceptions of Web Quest as Effective Teaching Tool
Keywords:
e-learning, Web Quest, Instructional Design, Teachers Perceptions, in-service training.Abstract
Web Quest used as an instructional tool as one of e-learning applications in education; has attracted the attention of scholars and post graduates students in Jordan. Web Quest known within students textbooks as a resource of information that learners have to reach for writing the content published at the site, While Web Quest underlying principles, components and a way of navigation that make it as an instructional tool designed for individualized and group learning, thus it is not perceived as a methodological tool in practice. Current study is based on Jwaifell & Al-Atyat [10] paper and aimed at identifying teachers' perceptions of Web Quest as effective teaching tool after experiencing designing Web Quest within a course of Portfolio and Graduation Project about designing instructionally a published Web Quest.
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