title: The WebQuest: constructing creative learning.
abstract: An exciting expansion of online educational opportunities is occurring in nursing. The use of a WebQuest as an inquiry-based learning activity can offer considerable opportunity for nurses to learn how to analyze and synthesize critical information. A WebQuest, as a constructivist, inquiry-oriented strategy, requires learners to use higher levels of thinking as a means to analyze and apply complex information, providing an exciting online teaching and learning strategy. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all of the information learners work with comes from the web. This article provides an overview of the WebQuest as a teaching strategy and provides examples of its use.
authors.affiliation: Adult Health Department, College of Nursing, University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36688, USA. jsanford@usouthal.edu
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanford
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Townsend-Rocchiccioli
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trimm
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003405:Creativity; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration*