Sometimes, the knowledge that you take for granted suddenly becomes questionable for yourself. I thought that I knew a lot about websites, choosing the best website for my students. However, I found that I am learning much more than I thought I would on this course.
The five criteria, namely 1. Accuracy and acceptance 2.Authority and coverage 3.Audience and relevance 4. Educational focus and 5. Ease of use will help me a lot when I decide to use the web in class. Especially considering the educational focus, I realise, is something we need to be extremely careful about. Appealing to different learning styles, and to different senses, being linked to a reputable and accredited examination body are all important considerations. Moreover, we need to think about the purpose for using a website before we even start looking at different websites, and evaluating them keeping in mind our purpose and the 5 very important criteria introduced in this module.
In addition, the publisher of the website being reputable and trusted, ease of use, content being relevant, the references being reliable, the speed of downloading different pages will all play an important role in how I choose websites.
Thank you Nilgun some very valid points there.
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