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PAPER The Drum Beat - 24 - Ohio University - Yahoo.com

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By Xing Liu
International Student of Ohio University
July 1999
xl325192@oak.cats.ohiou.edu


8. The Educational Content on Yahoo.com

Abstract

Introduction and justification
Internet, as a new means of communication, becomes more and more popular in our daily life. What is on the current websites? What can we learn from the Internet? This paper is to evaluate and analyze the educational content in Internet.

Strategy

Yahoo.com, the most favorite website, was regarded as the sampling frame to stand for the whole sites of Internet. Fifteen webpages were randomly selected from yahoo.com Education category. Content analysis method was used to evaluate the webpages, and colors, pictures and links in each page were counted and coded. The results were run by SPSS program.

Conclusions and recommendation

1. Materials in Yahoo.com are very attractive. They are full of verity and easy to draw reader's attention.
2. The content in yahoo is very instructive. People can learn a lot from it.
3. Using Internet is a good strategy in current education. It is a kind of entertainment education.
4. The censorship should be taken into consideration, as there are also a lot of unhealthful materials on Internet.