Navigating the EU: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Web-Based Tool to Make Students Better EU Learners and Citizens

16 Pages Posted: 2 Feb 2012 Last revised: 9 Feb 2012

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Herman Lelieveldt

University College Roosevelt/Utrecht University

Date Written: 2012

Abstract

While search engines seem to have made the act of finding information as involving little more than clicking the mouse button, educational research reveals that searching for information is a highly complex task that demands no less than five different Information Problem Solving (IPS) skills. This paper outlines and evaluates a series of web-based exercises that have been developed in conjunction with a new textbook on EU-politics. Developing such exercises for teaching the EU is in particular relevant as students experience it as a distant, complex and boring institution. Based upon student evaluations I assess the value of the exercises for student-learning and their potential for improving IPS-skills.

Keywords: EU-Politics, Interactive exercises, ICT, Web-based exercises, IPS-skills

Suggested Citation

Lelieveldt, Herman, Navigating the EU: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Web-Based Tool to Make Students Better EU Learners and Citizens (2012). APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1997646

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