Two information retrieval learning environments: their design and evaluation Kai Halttunen   View Paper (PDF)   Return to June 2005, Volume 39, Issue 1 Abstract The design and evaluation of two information retrieval (IR) learning environments took place in a basic course of IR (6 ECTS credits) at the Department of Information Studies at the University of Tampere. The course consisted of lectures, web exercises and tutored search exercises. Tutored exercises were carried out in two learning environments, in a traditional and in an experimental one. The participants in the study (n=57), were undergraduate students of information studies at the university. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery