Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.5, No.4, 2015 149 Teachers' Perceptions of Using Web Quest in Teaching Mustafa Jwaifell 1* Khalid Al-Atyat 2 1. Department of Curriculum and Teaching, AL-Hussein Bin Talal University, PO box 20, Ma'an, The Hashemite Kingdome of Jordan 2. Department of Curriculum and Teaching, AL-Hussein Bin Talal University, PO box 20, Ma'an, The Hashemite Kingdome of Jordan * E-mail of the corresponding author: jwaifell@hotmail.com Abstract This study aimed at identifying teachers' perceptions of Web Quest in teaching tool after experiencing designing Web Quest for instructional Purposes within a course of Portfolio and Graduation Project about designing instructionally a published Web Quest and to identify teachers perceptions of Web Quest as a constructivist problem solving, social interaction and sacffolded learning in applying this type of e-learning in practice. While Web Quest used as an instructional tool as one of e-learning applications in education; has attracted the attention of scholars in Jordan. Web Quest known within students textbooks as a resource of information that learners have to reach for writing the content published at the site, While Web Quest underlying principles, components and a way of navigation that make it as an instructional tool designed for individualized and group learning, thus it is not perceived as a methodological tool in practice. Keywords: e-learning, Web Quest, Instructional Design, Teachers Perceptions, in-service training. Introduction 1. Introduction The process of teaching and learning as a communication interface require using interaction through different means such as oral and concrete messages, while the interaction can be done by new technologies and resources such as internet technologies and tools. Web Quest is one of the internet applications that attracted educators as a new phenomenon which motivates students in learning process (Dodge, 1997). Al-Hussein Bin Talal University adapted in-service teachers program of Information Technology in education for acquiring them skills needed to help them develop their career and methodologies used in teaching. The program include courses of e-learning, instructional technology, teaching and learning strategies, designing WebPages, instructional design, programming languages and portfolio and graduation project, which reflect the whole skills they gained through the duration of the diploma. Recently, there has been a main focus among scholars and researchers; especially thesis and dissertations in the Jordanian universities beside the Arab Scholars on studying Web Quest and its impact on learning (Abu- Taweeleh, 2014; Al shumaimeri, 2012; Alhileh and Nofal, 2008). Teachers perceptions about using Web Quest still undefined in Jordan, while it is ample in other countries either teachers perception or its impact on learners such as the work of Gokalp (2011) Zheng, Perez, Williamson and Flygare (2007) Brown and Zahner (2006) Zheng, Stuck, McAlack and Stoddart (2005) and Butler and Strickland (2004) and other studies which add a tremendous knowledge about teachers and higher education students perceptions of Web Quest. In the contrary there is a lack of research about Jordanian teachers. 2. Web Quest Definition and Components Web Quest is a way to inquire knowledge by introducing it through the web in an inquiry activity, as Dodge (1997) emphasized that it is an activity in a form of inquiry where the learners interact with some or all the information from resources on the internet. Web Quest can be in a short term either a longer term, while the short term is designed for one to three class periods, neither the longer term which can take place between one week and a month within class room settings. Components of Web Quest either short or longer term, contains 6 components: Introduction, Task, Information Sources, Process, Guidance and Conclusion. Those components can be identified: • Introduction: Where topic can be presented in a short statement or paragraph (Brooks and Byles, 2000)