Design and Verification of the Cloud Resource Search System for Meaningful Learning

Abstract

As a result of rapid technological and Internet improvements searches for cloud resources have gradually changed the modes learners acquire knowledge Studies have indicated that web portals such as Google Yahoo! Kimo MSN Taiwan etc are the search engines most often used by users However when users enter keywords to search for information a large proportion of web page contents shown on the portals are highly repetitive wrong information Due to lack of effective management and regulations advertising has gone out of control The database may appear to be huge and containing all kinds of information but the information has not been sorted out and arranged systematically In consequence the search engines at the web portals are totally inapplicable in searches for educational resources To cope with this issue this study is intended to develop a searching system the cloud resource search system based on the information available on Wikipedia It will be equipped with the functions of automatic language analysis and presentation of structural association graphs for teachers and students to search for information during classroom activities The study was performed on second-year students of a junior high school in the Tainan area They conducted searches according to specified topics The objectives were to find out whether the learning effectiveness of the students could be significantly improved and also to understand the condition of use of existing systems in searches for Cloud resources the level of satisfaction with the outcome and whether the system is a success It was hoped that the students could connect to information sources through searches to acquire knowledge and achieve the purpose of meaningful learning The outcome of the experiment shows that use of the cloud resource search system to search for information from Cloud resources could improve the students’ learning effectiveness significantly The effects of learning resulted from searches involving sing entries also achieved statistical significance This implies the system can indeed serve as a useful complementary platform to help learning in classroom learning activities In addition the results of application of meaning learning and the information system success model for assessment and verification indicate that both teachers and students thought that the system for searches for information from Cloud resources could help teachers find comprehensive teaching material more quickly and improve their teaching In turn students’ interest in learning could be promoted and their motivation to learn and learning effectiveness could also improve to achieve the purpose of meaningful learning

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Yueh-Min Huang (Supervisor)