History of Webquest

WebQuests was created in 1995 by Dr. Bernie Dodge, a professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. Naturally, he didn’t work alone. Also receiving credit from various sources are the San Diego Unified School District’s Educational Technology staff, SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March (who actually created the first “fully developed” WebQuest for PacBell’s Knowledge Network), and legions of unnamed participants from the Teach the Teachers Consortium.

Other people didn’t really start making their own WebQuests until Dodge published a paper called “Some thought About Webquest” later that year. Many in the education community read it, and WebQuests quickly became popular.

At the same time, lots of teachers were using Dodge’s WebQuest Page as a resource and a way to learn about the format, so it also grew, eventually becoming a hub that linked to other WebQuests that people had created around the world.