Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Practical | 8 Hours. |
| Lecture | 14 Hours. 14 lectures x 1 hour |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Practical Project | 70% |
| Semester Assessment | essay 1,000 words | 30% |
Learning Outcomes
Studying this module, should enable students to do the following things:
- analyse the primary features of interfaces for information systems
- describe the principles of modern Internet-based information retrieval operations
- describe the major types of Interent retrieval tools
- use the Internet to satisfy a variety of information needs
- produce and manage basic Web pages
- produce and manage basic images for Web pages
Brief description
Information retrieval has expanded beyond its traditional home in libraries and formal information systems; it is now firmly in the hands of end-users. Contemporary information systems must fit themselves to the universal WWW browser interface, and customers quickly move from one system for another if the first does not deliver the right results. In this model of information retrieval, the end-user is customer and king. Today's information retrieval systems usually have interfaces that are so simple and so similar that new customers can rapidly teach themselves how to use most of the system. These changes are most completely developed in the Internet search engines.
Aims
- review the results of the above changes;
- critically examine the current state of the Internet's major information retrieval channels; and
- analyse the relationship between Web page features and their information retrieval consequences
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7