Advanced Information Literacy
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Advanced Information Literacy at Coursera Overview
Duration | 18 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Advanced Information Literacy at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Advanced Information Literacy at Coursera Course details
- This course is designed to build upon a learner's search skills and expertise in the information literacy concepts that underpin scholarship at college or university. This badge incentivizes them to continue improving their information literacy competencies over their academic and workplace career. By participating in this course, one can use these advanced search skills to save time conducting literature reviews, efficiently gather and organize information, ethically use sources, and protect their own intellectual property.
- Learners will work independently on a topic of their choosing and receive feedback from their peers throughout the process. The modules build on each other and provide learners with a framework (project outline). The final project is disseminated as a digital object that exemplifies the learner's status as an emerging scholar or professional.
- The modules are self-paced, the estimated completion time for each module is 2 hours. The content within in each module can be paused at any time, with the exception of the quiz at the end of each module.
Advanced Information Literacy at Coursera Curriculum
Understand various forms and expertise of scholarship
Welcome to the course
What is scholarship?
The Cost of Information
Evaluating Resources
Global politics of (mis)information
What is open access?
Copyright & Fair Use (a global primer)
End of Module 1 Quiz
Cite scholarship to give proper attribution
Giving credit
Don't Plagiarize
Citation Styles
Citing an image (3-point attribution)
The importance of citing references
American Psychological Association (APA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
APA Writer Tutorial (optional)
MLA citation practice template (optional)
Video: Endnote in Six Minutes
Video: Zotero in Nine Minutes
Attributing multimedia (optional)
Putting a license on your work (optional)
End of Module 2 Quiz
Strategically explore the information landscape
Research Topic Development and Strategic Exploration
Creating Synonyms
Advanced search strategies
Video: Narrowing a Topic with Mind Mapping
Explore Brainstorming Tools
Video: Developing a Research Question
Developing a Research Question
Video: How to Choose Keywords
Identifying Keywords and Synonyms
Brainstorming exercise
Focused Research Question
Build your search exercise
End of Module 3 Quiz
Map the information landscape
Introduction to module four
Revising your topic from an overview
Using encyclopedias for overviews
Searching for magazine articles
Searching for newspaper articles
Searching for journal articles
Searching for journal articles in a database
Searching for government & NGO sources
Searching for books
Finding and Using Magazine, Newspaper & Journal Articles
Finding and Using Government and Non-government Organization (NGO) Sources
Finding and Using Books
End of Module 4 Quiz
Final Project
Introduction to Final Project
Developing your Final Project
Putting it all together
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