Due to the growing interest in e-learning as an important process of teaching and learning,
new mechanisms to evaluate its pedagogical effectiveness are necessaries. This review …

We explore how crowdworkers can be trained to tackle complex crowdsourcing tasks. We
are particularly interested in training novice workers to perform well on solving tasks in …

This article reports on a study analyzing the digital skills of 91 low-income students enrolled
in writing remediation. Findings suggest that technological demands widen the equity …

Millennials, or Generation Y learners, are one of the largest constituencies academic
libraries serve today. Understanding how and why these technology-savvy students learn …

The first International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) was held on Thursday,
March 28th, at ECIR 2024 in Glasgow, UK. The full-day workshop had two calls for …

In this work, we introduce back-training, an alternative to self-training for unsupervised
domain adaptation (UDA) from source to target domain. While self-training generates …

In this paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of shared tasks as a teaching method.
A shared task is a scientific event and a friendly competition to solve a research problem, the …

Abstract “Information Science and Library Science”(LIS) and “Computer Science”(CS) are
two information-related disciplines with similar academic context and culture, and their …

Within LIS education, information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR) are two well-
established, foundational, and conceptually interlinked areas of study. They have long …

We explore the use of social learning-improving knowledge skills by observing peer
behavior-in the domain of Web search skill acquisition, focusing specifically on co-located …