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Information Retrieval
The term information retrieval is attributed to Calvin Mooers around 1950, and its use is associated with the explosion of scientific documentation produced during and following World War II. Information retrieval refers to the set of processes by which information can be extracted from a larger accumulation. Most typically, the term refers to the identification of documents from a collection or database of documents, or of specific information (e.g., facts, paragraphs, phrases, etc.) within a set of documents. As computer-based systems have evolved to support storage and retrieval of information in a variety of forms, some have broadened the definition of information retrieval to include retrieval of data elements and values from numeric and statistical databases, image retrieval from image databases, and audio retrieval from ...
- Administrative Processes
- Academic Calendar
- Administrative Leadership
- Administrative Planning and Support of Information Technology
- Admission Criteria and Processes
- Career Planning and Development
- Course Credit/Credit Transfer
- Enrollment Status
- Knowledge Management
- Library Services
- Markets/Marketing
- Online Orientation and Navigation Tools
- Operations and Management
- Orientation
- Outsourcing
- Program Evaluation
- Staffing
- Telecommuting/Teleworking
- Transcripts
- Policy, Finance, and Governance
- Social and Cultural Perspectives
- Adult Education Learning Model
- Cognitive Skills/Cognitive Development
- Corporate Training
- Cultural Access/Digital Divide
- Cultural Diversity
- Demographics
- Gender
- Globalization
- Intranet
- Knowledge Building/Knowledge Work
- Knowledge Economy
- Learning Communities
- Netiquette
- Online Universities
- Relationships
- Social Constructionism
- Social Issues
- Sociocultural Perspectives
- Sociotechnical Issues
- Virtual Communities
- World Wide Web
- Student and Faculty Issues
- Teaching and Learning Processes and Technologies
- Alternative Secondary Education
- Assessment of Prior Learning
- Assessment of Student Competence
- Café
- Case Studies
- Clinical Training
- Collaboration
- Continuing Education
- Correspondence Courses
- Critical Dialogues
- Curriculum Models
- Designing Learning Environments
- Distributed Learning/Distributed Education
- E-Learning Strategies
- Experiential Learning
- Facilitation
- Feedback
- Graduate Study
- Group Process
- Group Size
- Home Schooling
- Informatics
- Information Literacy
- Instructional Course Design
- Instructional Techniques
- Internet
- Learning Circles
- Learning Environments
- Learning Platforms
- Literature Searching
- Lurking
- MBA Online
- Medical Education
- Metacommunication
- Norms
- Online Learning
- Online Learning Environments
- Outcomes
- Pedagogy/Andragogy
- Public Television
- Residence Halls
- Scholar Practitioner Model
- Self-Directed Learning
- Skill Development
- Study Guides
- Teaching in an Electronic Classroom
- Team Teaching
- Telecourses
- Telehealth and Telemedicine
- Time Management
- Transformational Learning
- Virtual Classroom
- Work-Based Distributed Learning
- Technical Tools and Supports
- Adaptive Technology
- Asynchronous Formats
- Authoring Tools
- Browser
- Computer
- Computer Literacy
- Computer-Based Training (CBT)
- Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
- Connectivity
- Cyberspace
- Delivery Systems
- Desktop Publishing
- Document Management Systems
- Domain Name
- Electronic Journals and Publications
- ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center
- Evolving Technologies
- Graphics
- Groupware
- Hypermedia
- Hypertext
- Information Retrieval
- Information Systems
- Information Technology (IT)
- Interactive Textbook
- Internet Service Provider
- IT Security
- Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Learning Objects
- Learning Technology Standards
- Library Technologies
- Media
- Networks
- Programming and Scripting Languages
- Simulations
- Site Licenses
- Streaming Media
- Synchronous Formats
- Telephone Teaching
- Textual Computing
- Virtual Campus
- Virtual Learning Tools
- Viruses
- Voice Activation Programs
- Web Portals
- Web Sites
- Web-Based Course Management Systems (WBCMS)
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