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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this slide, it explains the reason why the information came from authoritative sources but still not trustworthy. The possible reason could be (1) the way information is produced, (2)carelessness or loaded with secret intentions, (3) in favour of their hidden goal, (4)not spending enough time, (5) limited topic vocabulary, (6) limited by technical barriers, (7)information that fits with your knowledge & beliefs, and (8) from a source that you think is trustworthy.
- Keywords:
- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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.
- Keywords:
- Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In the exercise, learner need to determine where is the best place to find these primary information.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Humanities -- Research Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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In this game, you need to match the types of information sources with the corresponding information needs.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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In this game, learners are required to put the information that can support the work in different research stages.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Research -- Methodology Information literacy Information resources
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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?
- Keywords:
- Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this exercise, learners are required to rank the task in the order that reflects the usual practices.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Research
- Resource Type:
- Others
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In this exercise, please rank the task in the order that reflect your usual research practices.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research
- Resource Type:
- Others
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In this exercise, learners are require to order the tasks in a way that reflect the research usual practice.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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
- Keywords:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this slide, it introduces the six frames for informed learning, suggested by Prof. Christine Bruce, would help learners brainstorm about the research topic in all-rounded, comprehensive way. The six aspects of your research topic that you should brainstorm for are: (1) Content frame, (2) Competency frame, (3) Learning to learn frame, (4) Personal relevance frame, (5) Social impact frame, and (6) Relational frame.
- Keywords:
- Learning Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.
- Keywords:
- Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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In this exercise, learners are required to match legal resources with the contents.
- Keywords:
- Information resources Legal research
- Resource Type:
- 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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Engineering -- Research -- Methodology Engineering -- Research Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Social sciences -- Authorship Bibliographical citations Psychology -- Authorship
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Keywords:
- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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!
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
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.
- Keywords:
- Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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This video is about the basics techniques of evaluating information.
- Keywords:
- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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This video is about "where does information come from?".
- Keywords:
- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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This video is about 'how to create high-quality ideas?'.
- Keywords:
- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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.
- Keywords:
- Bibliographical citations Report writing
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- 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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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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.
- Keywords:
- China -- Hong Kong Economic conditions -- Statistics Business -- Databases
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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 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
- Resource Type:
- 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.
- Keywords:
- Google (Firm) Web search engines Internet searching
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
In this slide, it introduces different type of resource was created with a particular kind of purpose: to transmit facts, to interpret the findings, to put forward a viewpoint, to let fellow workers know some important idea, and so on.
- Keywords:
- Information resources Research -- Methodology
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
In this matching game, learners are required to match various scientific content types, for example, books, literature review articles, encyclopedia entry, conference proceedings, scholarly journal articles, government documents, reference books, technical reports, with their intended purpose.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Research Information literacy Information resources
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
In this exercise, you will learn various engineering content types. For example, journal articles & conference papers, e-books, patents, standards, thesis & dissertations.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Engineering -- Research Information literacy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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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
- Resource Type:
- Video
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