Introduction

There are two types of WebQuests: short-term and long-term. In a short-term WebQuest, the instructional goal is simply knowledge acquisition and integration. Each student obtains and processes a significant amount of new information from the Web and in-school materials and makes sense of it usually by creating Web pages. In a long-term WebQuest, the instructional goal increases one level, challenging students to extend and refine the knowledge they find online and in the real world. Each student deeply analyzes a body of knowledge, integrates it into their knowledge base, and demonstrates their understanding by presenting it to the class in the form of Web pages. Long-term WebQuests can take weeks or months to complete.