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A Genre Analysis of Media Objects on e-Learning: A Survey of Six Online Boating Instruction Websites

Abstract

New types of documents are generated by emerging technologies to support various information needs. Researchers have pointed out that genre studies of new documents are needed for information management (Päivärinta, 1999; Beghtol, 2001). In this paper, we survey the genres of media objects used by six Web sites providing boating instruction in the U.S. The purpose of the analysis is to understand the usage of different media objects for e‐learning and potential management schemes of the media objects in e‐leaning systems.

Meeting Name

72nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, ASIS&T 2009 (2009: Nov. 6-11, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Department(s)

Library and Learning Resources

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0044-7870; 1550-8390

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2009 John Wiley & Sons Inc., All rights reserved.

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