Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web: Biological Evolution/Webden Öğrenme ve Öğretim: Biyolojik Evrim Konusu

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to review the content of websites presenting information on biological evolution. The specific goal here is to question whether such websites are available for education and training purposes for students and biology teachers at high school and college level. For this purpose 16 Turkish websites offering free content on biological evolution, as returned by a Google search, were reviewed by researchers with a website review scale composed of 18 criteria categorized under 4 key groups of "design, target audience, content and currency". The descriptive review of 16 websites addressing as returned by a Google search has revealed that 6 of these websites can be employed for educational purposes despite few shortcomings, yet the remaining 10 are poor in terms of content, visual appearance, availability of the source of information presented and currency.