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January, 2005

 

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WebQuests are simply problem based assignments where the instructions are housed on the Internet and which make use of Internet resources as part of the completion of the task.  RB University's inaugural course was centered around the use of WebQuests in problem based learning and created many excellent projects.

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 RB University's first course was in Problem Based LearningL featuring WebQuests.  You can view quite a few creative quests in a variety of subject areas here.

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Curriculum Pages

Generally speaking, our Curriculum Pages host a variety of WebQuests.  Not everything here is a quest - some pages are merely 'hotlists' of links.  The "featured" quests below are also accessible from this page.

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Marisa Ptak

Marissa developed this quest at an NEH Fellowship for use with her American Studies students.  It helps give them background knowledge on the life of Frederick Douglass.

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Mark Gouwens

Mark's "Moses, You've Got E-Mail" quest imagines that Moses could have used the Internet to set his people free!

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Kristen Cieplak

Kristen riffed off the popular reality show "Survivor!" to help her students learn about the colony of Jamestown and how it survived its first winter.

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