Online Instruction
A variety of online resources are available to offer alternate approaches to learning information literacy skills.
Tutorials
The most comprehensive online tools are tutorials, which can provide flexible and self-directed ways for students to learn general methods and strategies of research, or about particular resources.
CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education)
This web-based interactive tutorial guides users through the process of developing effective information strategies for identifying, locating, and evaluating information sources. Its modular format allows it to be used in varying time amounts, either in class or outside of scheduled class time. Individual student use can be identified and reported to a course instructor. An instructor's guide briefly explains the objectives of the CORE tutorial and some of its key features.
Searching the Internet
A brief introduction to the Internet and search techniques.
Evaluating
Internet Sites
An overview of the concepts and criteria of evaluating Internet sites.
How
to Read a Scientific Paper
Explains the elements of a scientific paper and how it
can be useful to your research.
Choices
3 tutorial
This tutorial provides an overview and other helpful information about Choices
3, which is produced by the Simmons Market Research Bureau. This
resource surveys the buying and media habits of the American public. Using
demographic and psychographic data from a nationwide survey called "National
Consumer Study" (NCS), it may be used to develop consumer profiles of
selected products and brands, and to detail consumer media preferences.
Research Guides
Research guides provide more focused information about resources on a variety of subjects or about particular steps of the research process. They may be general in scope, or they may be tailored to a specific course. Research guides may be printed or downloaded as instructional resources for individual or classroom use. Visit the Research Guides page to see what is available.
