Community of Online Research Assignments

Primary and Secondary Sources Tutorial

This interactive learning module takes students through the process of identifying the differences between primary and secondary sources. The structure of the tutorial consists of four parts. First, students learn the definitions for both primary and secondary sources. Next, the students work through various examples of primary and secondary sources in different academic disciplines at their own pace. In the third part, common mistakes are addressed in “Mythbusters” style.

How to Research: Pima Community College Library Tutorials

These online, self-paced tutorials built in Articulate Storyline instruct students in academic-level research skills at point-of-need. The tutorials educate and entertain researchers as they accompany an animated anthropology student on a research quest into the desert southwest. The tutorials’ setting reflects the unique landscape and history of Tucson, Arizona.

Y Search

A website produced by library instructors at Brigham Young University for use in blended learning instruction with First-Year Writing (FYW) classes. Contains five modules: background research, topic development, search strategies, source evaluation, and critical reading. Each module includes two embedded videos. Librarians wanted these videos to be as brief as possible, so each video is limited to two minutes.

Lion's Guide to Research & the Library

Lion's Guide to Research & the Library was developed to meet the information literacy learning outcomes associated with Loyola Marymount University's First Year Seminar course. The four modules that comprise this tutorial are integrated into each First Year Seminar and cover the basic research skills students need to succeed in college. While these modules are intended for freshman students, anyone needing a research refresher course will benefit from completing this tutorial.

Visual-Literacy.org

This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations; improve their shortcomings; use visual representations to create and communicate knowledge; and devise new ways of representing insights.

The RADAR Challenge

The RADAR Challenge is an online game developed by the librarians at Loyola Marymount University. The game is designed to be played in teams during a class or library session. Student teams are given an excerpt from a scientific journal article and asked a number of evaluative questions about the excerpt. These questions correspond to the RADAR information evaluation framework (Rationle, Accuracy, Date, Authority, Relevance).