Distance Education Resources and Services for Online Learners

Self paced tutorials with assessments to check for understanding:

• Getting Started with Research: Introduces why information literacy skills matter, how to get started with a research project including understanding the research process, narrowing your topic and developing a thesis statement.
• Sources of Information: Addresses how information is created,  what is peer-review, secondary and primary sources, how to read a scholarly article and how to incorporate information.
• Searching for Information: This module covers the basics of searching for information, including choosing a database and  the right source, identifying keywords, and employing search techniques.
• Evaluating Information: This module covers the basics of evaluating resources for authority, accuracy, and other criteria. How to choose the best web source and identifying fake news.
• Presenting Research and Data: Introduces the concepts of digital privacy, how to synthesize information and writing an annotated bibliography.
• Citations and Academic Integrity: Covers the importance of academic integrity and introduces the basics on citing sources in MLA 7 & 8, APA, Turabian, Harvard, and Chicago)