Scavenger hunts

Scavenger hunts send learners out on a quest for answers and sources of reliable information on the Web or corporate and campus intranets.

This example challenges learners to find specific regulations about medical testing of human subjects. Learners are provided with a link to the appropriate regulations where the answers are found.

In another example, future Visual Basic programmers are challenged to locate the latest code, documentation, and technical tips for a programming library used to manipulate databases.

This example is about diamonds in Colorado. At the end of the scavenger hunt, learners are asked to draw a conclusion using the information they just located.

The example to the left is a sanitized scavenger hunt used in an ethics course.

About the examples

The first three examples were built using Adobe Dreamweaver and JavaScript.

The final example uses a generic Flash shell that reads an external XML file. We used Adobe Flash and Microsoft InfoPath.