5. Post an entry in my blog

What is "E-Learning" and how does it affect college student's studies?
I dropped the search parameter "success" to broaden my search. I used ProQuest for this project.

1) (E-Learning OR "Online Education") AND "College Students" 

2) I chose this magazine article because it covered the topic well. The article is recent, and very up to date in regards to the E-Learning tecnology. The article is also very specific to my search.

RebeccaU.S. News & World Report 1 May 2010: Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 19 May. 2012.

3) I chose this scholarly journal because it explains how E-Learning is performing in education.  It is an in depth case study on all aspects of E-learning. The abstract was interesting to me, and right on my topic search.

Halawi, L., S. Pires, and R. McCarthy. "An Evaluation of E-Learning on the Basis of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Exploratory Study. " Journal of Education for Business 84.6 (2009): 374-380. Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 19 May. 2012.

4) I chose this newspaper article because I like the concept of education changing with the advancement of technology.  This article was full of interesting stats.

Jack P Calareso. "Campus traditions changing. " Telegram & Gazette 21 Oct. 2009,ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, ProQuest. Web. 19 May. 2012.

5) Summary:  For this project my search statement went through a few changes, because my topic is a new technology I needed to broaden my search.  I'm used to having to many hits, and was surprised that a narrow search did not turn up much.  By eliminating keywords I was able to find articles that were exactly on topic for my search.  I tried variations of (affect AND success*) but my topic was too new for them to be effective. I learned new topics will have far less data on a subject, and a broad searches will work better. I also realized my question was very specific, and kind of wished I would have used a different one considering the topic. I thought it to be relevent to what we are doing in class, and I did learn a lot looking through the data available in ProQuest.