InfoLit for U MOOC-Engineering-Section 3

PolyU OER Collections

The resources of this series are designed to help you to critically evaluate the info you find; to decide whether to change the 1st search; to prioritize what you’ll begin to select to look at (Triage); and to develop criteria to examine and compare info from different sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness & suitability for the task.

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  • Video 
    ["Useful strategies to evaluate engineering information"]

    Useful strategies to evaluate engineering information

    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
     
  • Video 
    ["Introduction to evaluating engineering information"]

    Introduction to evaluating engineering information

    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
    Resource Type:
    Video