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Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval

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This chapter provides an overall objective and outlines the motivation for the book. A taxonomy of teaching and learning is briefly described, and the use of this taxonomy for the purposes of the book is briefly outlined. Using the taxonomy the book structure is described, giving a structured overview of the chapters and providing targeted information on specific aspects for the reader.

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Efthimiadis, E.N., Fernández-Luna, J.M., Huete, J.F., MacFarlane, A. (2011). Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval. In: Efthimiadis, E., Fernández-Luna, J., Huete, J., MacFarlane, A. (eds) Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22511-6_1

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