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In this video, you will learn about strategies to critically evaluate search results, including (1) Choose good & varied search tools, (2) Ask yourself what you want or need, (3) Use the sorting & filtering functions, (4) Look for your keywords the important parts of the results, (5) Pay issuing organization or publisher, (6) Ask yourself the information whether is credible, suitable, technical information appropriate to your information needs.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research -- Methodology Engineering -- Research Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation
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In this video, the students are plan to submit their report to "Student Newspaper" and call the editor for advices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Scholarly publishing Copyright
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In this video, a team of students are suggested to digitize the works of the exhibition.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Humanities -- Research Copyright
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In this exercise, learners are required to tell which one is a citation entry for a book/book chapter/article/map/news article.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Authorship Bibliographical citations Psychology -- Authorship
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- Others
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In this video, the team won the best student poster award at the poster exhibition, and they are being invited to publish an exclusive feature story in the student e-newspaper. They want to use an infographic to help present their ideas and would like to extend their research to invite the interviewee to share their views on the topic.They are excited about writing for the student e-newspaper, and they are interested to know the ethical and legal issues around the use of information.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
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In this video, students are discussing the design of the report. One suggests to record an interview by their smartphones and use the video editing software.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Research Cell phones Interviewing
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When Jacob receives his term paper assignment, he cannot find previous Land Law course materials. He and his classmates discuss what they should do next in the Library. They consult the law librarian who suggests they watch the this video to get an idea on how to plan and start legal research.
- Keywords:
- Information retrieval Legal research
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In this video, the students are trying to finish writing up their report and using APA as the citation style.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Authorship Psychology -- Authorship Bibliographical citations
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In this video, a team of students arrive the university library and meet the Reference Librarian at a discussion room. The Reference Librarian firstly recaps the concepts of the AAOCC. Then, she mentions the additional criteria for evaluating the primary and secondary sources!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
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In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.
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- Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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This video is about the basics techniques of evaluating information.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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This video is about "where does information come from?".
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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This video is about 'how to create high-quality ideas?'.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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In this video, a member of the team discovers a piece of surprising investment advice that she shares with her teammates. Watch the video to see the competition results and learn about the investment advice. What goes wrong?
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- Investments Investment analysis Stocks -- Prices
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When preparing for research tasks (e.g. articles, essay, projects, reports, thesis,...), you have to go through a series of small tasks. In this slide, it elaborates and expands the research topic before carrying out the actual search.
- Keywords:
- Research -- Methodology
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- Others
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In this exercise, learners are required to sort the given information into scholarly journals or popular magazine.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medical sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Others
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In this video, the team finds that even they've covered the academic sources, but something is still missing. Having said that Google might not be ideal to kick-start your research; it does help you connect with top-quality reports by professional bodies if you know these tricks.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Research Google (Firm) Internet searching
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In this video, a student, Jacob comes up with a brilliant idea to compile over hundreds of highly relevant citations for his reference list in just under an hour. Without this shortcut, Jacob might have spent a week tidying up his references before submitting his paper. Do you want to learn how Jacob so painlessly created the reference list? Watch the video below and see what Jacob ends up doing after he meets with Prof. Ian, his co-supervisor of the research project.
- Keywords:
- Bibliographical citations Report writing
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains the seven things you should pay attention to when you plan the information needs of your research. (1) Use information and communication technology to be really up to date with what's happening. (2) Encounter different types of sources and knowing when it's important to use them. Not only academic literature but also people, social media, the environment, visual information, sound, anything that might inform you. (3) Create your processes to tackle problems or make decisions. (4) Connect information of all kinds that you encounter with specific projects, problems, or areas of interest. (5) Build your knowledge base about your fields of study. (6) Use your creativity and intuition to do something new. (7) Seventhly using information wisely for the benefit of others.
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video