"Promoting Information and Search Skills" By Jean Bedord, Freepint (Jun 30) -- Jean Bedord teaches an online course on use of commercial databases (Dialog, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis) through the graduate school of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She describes the methods (Blackboard for lecture notes and communication and WebEx for the realtime vendor presentations) and the challenges in teaching search techniques online. Comments on the aspects of search that students find most difficult - using alternate words, appreciating the variety and number of sources, logic errors vs syntax errors.
Posted by Gwen at June 30, 2005 10:31 AM