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In this video, Prof Klaus Tochtermann, the Director of Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW) and Professor of Media Informatics of University of Kiel in German shares his view on the importance of becoming information literate.
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- Information literacy
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In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) What are the top 20 journals in the subject discipline of business and international management, (2) How can I find the most highly cited articles on a specific strategy, and (3) How can I find the articles from practitioner magazines and newspapers.
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In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) How do I gather the forecast of key economic indicators in Hong Kong, (2) How can I find the market data and analytics for mobile phones in China, and (3) How can I create a customized table to compare P/F ratios of all constituent stocks in Hang Seng Index.
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- China -- Hong Kong Economic conditions -- Statistics Business -- Databases
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- Others
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In this video, a team of students now planning a marketing strategy for their business, and require theoretical frameworks and concepts found in the academic literature, that is, academic journal articles. They have so many questions, such as which articles are most influential and should be read first, which are the top journals in the field, and who are the prolific authors on the topic?
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- Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation Bibliometrics
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With power searching, you can quickly identify the many freely available, top-quality reports produced by professional bodies such as top investment banks, accounting firms, and management consultancies. In this video, a student, Christina demonstrates three advanced search tips on Google.
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- Google (Firm) Web search engines Internet searching
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In this video, Dr Charles Lam shares his views on how to deals with information at various stages of the investment deal. In his sharing, he covers 4 stages of the investment deal. In completing a deal -- What are the major steps involved in completing a real estate investment deal? In making decisions about real estate -- Which business information will inform his decision-making? In validating information -- What mechanism does he use to validate the information sources and data? In spotting bad information -- How does he spot out biased or even fraudulent information?
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- Investments Real estate investment Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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In this video, Ms Huang, industry analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence, shares her views on how to deals with information at various stages of research namely: At the start -- What information does Margaret seek to kick-start research into an industry theme? During the search -- How does she determine the reliability of her data sources? During the search -- What major challenges does she face when dealing with business information? At the end -- What makes her industry research valuable to investors?
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- Investments Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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In this video, Dr Robert Wright, a multi-award winning teacher and researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, shares his views on the various aspects of information seeking: Inspiration -- Where does he get inspiration for research? Selecting info -- How does he select appropriate information for his research projects? Evaluating info -- What criteria help him evaluate the quality of a research article? Top tips -- What tips does he have for his students to help them read and understand an academic journal article?
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- Business -- Research -- Methodology Management -- Research -- Methodology
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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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Many fresh graduates are unaware that the jobs postings in newspapers or employment websites are only the tip of the iceberg when compared to all the actual career opportunities available on the market. Oftentimes, the advertised jobs attract dozens or even hundreds of interested candidates. Tracking down a position that is unadvertised or doesn’t yet exist is therefore worthwhile because one will face a lot less competition. In this video, a team of students are discovering the golden opportunity of their lives. Does their story inspire you to find your own future dream job?
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- College graduates -- Employment New business enterprises
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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.
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- Bibliographical citations Report writing
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Most successful people are able to perceive the world around them differently, looking creatively at organisations and systems. They uncover hidden patterns and possibilities that allow them to discover new insights and new ways of doing things. In this video, most of the teammates regard its completion as the end of a journey, there is one student who spots an opportunity to do more.
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- Business planning Business -- Research -- Methodology Proposal writing in business
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There's lots of Engineering information on the Web. Some ask you to pay money; your library probably already subscribes to many good sources. As you develop into a professional engineer, you will learn to go beyond general web pages or web docs & become a more sophisticated engineering information user and creator. In this video, it introduces different engineering information (characteristics & purposes).
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Engineering -- Research
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While many journal articles and conference papers are written by scholars working at universities or research institutions, professional engineering associations also play a major role in disseminating research findings and practices by: Publishing peer-reviewed research journals Publishing practical “trade” journals Holding conferences & publishing proceedings In this video, it explains what professional associations do and why it matters.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Professional associations Professional education Periodicals
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- Video
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In this exercise, you will learn various engineering content types. For example, journal articles & conference papers, e-books, patents, standards, thesis & dissertations.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Engineering -- Research Information literacy
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- Others
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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 slide, you will learn more about citation counts, h-index, eigenfactor score, and impact factor.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Periodicals Bibliometrics Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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Over 20 student teams from national and international universities, including UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan, presented their global health technologies at the Rice competition. In this video, it share the story of 2 team of HKUST students. SIGHT was the first team from HKUST to participate in the Rice competition and they won.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research Technological innovations Medical records -- Data processing Pharmacy management
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students are working on their engineering innovation project. They used various search tools to find various information. However, they have difficulties to decide what to look at first, and how to choose in a strategic and clever way.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research
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In this video, a team of students preparing for a group community health project on the topic “overuse of hands and arms”. The project is a student learning activity of Problem-based Public Health module in the MBBS curriculum offered by the School of Public Health. The team is required to deliver patient education materials and a written report on the topic they decided.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research Technical writing
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- Video
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In this exercise, please rank the task in the order that reflect your usual research practices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research
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- Others
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In this video, a team of four students have used skills learned in the previous module and found a lot of information which seems relevant. They now have a problem of evaluating the information found to determine what is the most relevant to their research. Apart from that, they also found that there are many types of medical research and studies.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Medicine -- Research -- Methodology Public health -- Research -- Methodology Medical care -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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In this exercise, students are required to match various types of information in health sciences.
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In this video, the 4 students have used skills learned in Section 3 to evaluate the information found in various databases on a journal article, e-books, anatomy and drug information, etc. They have now come up with a batch of most relevant information that they will use in their community health project assignment which comprises the creation of patient education materials and the writing up of a project report. They meet to discuss what information they should use to fulfil the information tasks. The issue of properly citing sources of the information used also comes up as a skill that they also need to master to avoid plagiarism.
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In this exercise, learners are required to sort the given information into scholarly journals or popular magazine.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- 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, a group of students from the School of Journalism and Communication is preparing for a group assignment. They need to do a group assignment based on one current social hot topic - Elderly issue and social protection system in Asian countries.The team is now discussing how to kick-start the group assignment and what information sources are needed. Let's check out what they are discussing!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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In this exercise, learners are required to rank the task in the order that reflects the usual practices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research
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- Others
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Starting your research in Google may not be ideal as it often ends up leading you to millions of websites and you have no clue which ones are dependable and reliable. Let’s watch this video and learn the short-cut of locating quality social sciences information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Keyword searching Social sciences -- Research Database searching Web search engines Internet searching
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In this video, two students are discussing the types of information are needed to answer the sub-questions. In their conversation, various type of information, including manuscripts, diaries and autobiographies, audio recordings and videos, original art works, letter patents, conference papers, books, government publications, critical analysis and review, journal articles, and handbooks.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Video
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In this game, you need to match the types of information sources with the corresponding information needs.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Social 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.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Google (Firm) Internet searching
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- Video
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In this video, the team has spent a lot of time on searching relevance journal articles, but still, could not locate the right one. That's probably because they did not search with the right keywords and are unable to connect them correctly. Did you encounter this similar situation before? Let's look at this one-minute video to brush up on your searching skills on using subject terms, Boolean operators, truncation, and more.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Keyword searching Information retrieval Database searching
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- Video
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In this video, the team requires to include viewpoints from journal articles in this academic project. You may ask, which articles are most influential and should be read first? Which journals are more prestigious in the field? Who are the champion authors on the topic?All these questions can be answered quickly if you select the right tools.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information retrieval Social sciences -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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- Video
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In this video, the team meets again, after analyzing and evaluating their search results from academic articles and news sources. They found they need to be careful in avoiding using fake news into their work. Fake news is not a new phenomenon, but with the rise of social media like Facebook and Twitter and the extensive use of messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat, we are faced with growing cases of FAKE news.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Social sciences -- Research Fake news Internet 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.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Authorship Psychology -- Authorship Bibliographical citations
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- Video
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In this video, the students are whining about how difficult it is to prepare their paper in APA Style. Then a senior student shared with them the tips of using reference management tools like EndNote; RefWorks; Mendeley; and Zotero.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
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- Video
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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.
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- 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 handed in their report, and their tutor liked it a lot and encouraged them to enter the Research Poster Exhibition. The poster exhibition aims to facilitate students to present their research to the broader university community. So the team is preparing their poster now.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Psychology -- Authorship Communication in education Poster presentations Technical writing
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- Video
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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.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
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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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- Video
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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
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- Social sciences -- Research Cell phones Interviewing
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- Video
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: (1)What is a lesson plan? (2) What are the essential questions that we need to bear in mind when planning a lesson?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Learning Psychology of
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In this exercise, a team of students listed out a number of tasks that they have to complete when preparing the lesson plan. Which of the following task will be listed as the top priority on your to-do list? Will you start searching at this moment?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
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- Others
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Why is it important to have a lesson plan?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what do we need to pay attention to when using publisher's material in our lesson?
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- Information resources Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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- Video
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A subject encyclopedia contains articles (some short, some long) on the theories, events and thinkers that sum up the available literature about a discipline. Articles are arranged in alphabetical order.Indexes in the back of the encyclopedia can help you to determine if the encyclopedia contains an article on your topic, or if your topic is covered within an essay on a related topic. In this slide, here are some examples of subject encyclopedias that may available in your university library.
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- Encyclopedias Education Encyclopedias dictionaries
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Is it common we are not capable to fully implement our lesson plan in the classroom?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what are the key ways to understand your student's progress of learning during a lesson.
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- Teaching Effective teaching
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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.
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- Information retrieval Legal research
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- Video
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on what ways do law researchers benefit from social media.
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- Online social networks Social media Legal research
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- Video