WebQuest-based college English course design

WebQuest is a web-assisted, inquiry-based and topic-specialized learning platform. In order to make full use of it, basing on its advantages, the paper makes an in-depth research into its characteristics, illustrates its design goals and design strategy, setting forth a model design of a WebQuest-based college English course. It includes an introduction module design, a task module design, a process module design, a resource module design, an evaluation module design and a summary module design.