Open Educational Resources | Pao Yue-kong Library, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Works (4)

Video

Why we need to care about other historians' ideas? Why don't we just finding facts?

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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Video
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How to evaluate the information is relevant to your work

In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton shares his view on how do historians select relevant information.

Subjects:

Statistics and Research Methods

Keywords:

History -- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research History -- Research

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Video
Video

To assess the relevant primary and secondary sources for the exhibition

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
Video

Evaluating historical resources

In this video, a team of students meet again with the Prof. Brown after finding various kinds of primary and secondary resources for the exhibition. Prof. Brown had taken a look at the resources that they have collected and commented that some of the primary resources. He reminded them to use a list of criteria to evaluate the resources the plan to use for the exhibition. Let's check out what are the criteria he suggested to use!

Subjects:

Statistics and Research Methods

Keywords:

Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research

Resource Type:

Video

Why we need to care about other historians' ideas? Why don't we just finding facts?

How to evaluate the information is relevant to your work

To assess the relevant primary and secondary sources for the exhibition

Evaluating historical resources