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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on why we need to care about other historians' ideas? Why don't we just finding facts.
- Keywords:
- Communication in the humanities Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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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 video, a year 3 LLB student who is preparing a term paper with a substantial research component regularly consults his supervisor. In a recent meeting, the supervisor queries why two pieces of information were cited in his draft. One piece of information is from a local real estate agent’s website summarizing the legal provision for the Hong Kong deed of mutual covenant agreements. Another piece of information is a court case covered in a Hong Kong land law blog.
- Keywords:
- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students are now discussing where is the best place to find primary sources and search more efficiently.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Information retrieval Humanities -- Research
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- Video
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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
- Keywords:
- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Video
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce shares her view on "Why InfoLit is vital?" through the search & research they do every day.
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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- Video
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Professional associations Professional education Periodicals
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- Video
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In the video, it explains the criteria to use to evaluate legal information.
- Keywords:
- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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- Video
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In this video, it explains what secondary legal material are. Secondary legal sources often explain legal principles more thoroughly so it is good to start your research project with secondary sources.
- Keywords:
- Information resources Legal research -- Databases Legal research Legal research -- Computer network resources
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- Video
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Engineering -- Research -- Methodology Engineering -- Research Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation
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- Video
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In this video, the students are plan to submit their report to "Student Newspaper" and call the editor for advices.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Scholarly publishing Copyright
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- Video
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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
- Keywords:
- Intellectual property Humanities -- Research Copyright
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education 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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Research Cell phones Interviewing
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- Video
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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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- Video
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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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- Video
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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
- Keywords:
- Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
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- Video
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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.
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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- Video
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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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- Video
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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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- Video
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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?
- Keywords:
- Investments Investment analysis Stocks -- Prices
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- Video
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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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- Video
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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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- Video
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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
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information retrieval Social sciences -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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- Video
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Psychology -- Authorship Communication in education Poster presentations Technical writing
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- Video
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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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- Video
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In this video, a group of students comes to a librarian’s office to enquire about how to manage their references.They scheduled an appointment with Ms. Janet Lee, a Research Support Librarian to learn about citation management.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Report writing Citation of electronic information resources Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Technical writing
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- Video
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Besides case law, legislation is also important for Jacob's legal research! The law librarian suggests he refreshes his understanding about what legislation is, and how to develop skills in researching legislation.This video will help you develop your skills in researching legislation.
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- China -- Hong Kong Legal research -- Databases Legislation Legal research
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- Video
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In this video, it explains what case law is, how and why to use it for legal research.
- Keywords:
- Information resources Judge-made law Legal research
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Engineering -- Research
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- Video
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In the video, it explains why it is important to evaluate legal information.
- Keywords:
- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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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: what do we need to pay attention to when using publisher's material in our lesson?
- Keywords:
- Information resources Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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- Video
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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?
- Keywords:
- Business -- Research -- Methodology Management -- Research -- Methodology
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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: Why is it important to have a lesson plan?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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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, 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.
- Keywords:
- Teaching Effective teaching
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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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- 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: Is it common we are not capable to fully implement our lesson plan in the classroom?
- Keywords:
- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on how to decide whether an idea or argument is strong and relevant to your research
- Keywords:
- Legal research
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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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- Video
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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?
- Keywords:
- Investments Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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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.
- Keywords:
- Online social networks Social media Legal research
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- Video
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on how to make a creative video.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Creative ability History -- Research Humanities -- Research
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- Video
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Keyword searching Social sciences -- Research Database searching Web search engines Internet searching
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students are working together to create a business plan--a formal document that describes the business goals of a start-up company, and provides a strategic map to show how it will attain those goals. What kinds of information do they need to write a business plan? Which information sources will provide them with the critical evidence
- Keywords:
- Business planning Proposal writing in business
- Resource Type:
- 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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
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- Video
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to evaluate information in leisure, home, or professional situations is an essential skill. Our information world is always changing, and shelf-life of most information is no more than two years!
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate help you find creative and innovative ways of doing things, which is invaluably advantageous to your wider profession.
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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.