Teachers' Perceptions of Using Web Quest in Teaching

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying teachers' perceptions of Web Quest in teaching tool after experiencing designing Web Quest for instructional Purposes within a course of Portfolio and Graduation Project about designing instructionally a published Web Quest and to identify teachers perceptions of Web Quest as a constructivist problem solving, social interaction and sacffolded learning in applying this type of e-learning in practice. While Web Quest used as an instructional tool as one of e-learning applications in education; has attracted the attention of scholars in Jordan. Web Quest known within students textbooks as a resource of information that learners have to reach for writing the content published at the site, While Web Quest underlying principles, components and a way of navigation that make it as an instructional tool designed for individualized and group learning, thus it is not perceived as a methodological tool in practice.

Keywords: e-learning, Web Quest, Instructional Design, Teachers Perceptions, in-service training. Introduction