Information can be packaged in a variety of digital formats that have their own properties and can lead down certain information paths. In this lesson, students will explore properties of digital formats in order to identify the best format to meet their information needs.

Library 101

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Engaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects. Save Valuable Time with Choosing and Using Sources, a Free ebook NewParaWith this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. With Choosing and Using Sources, you have: Research help through short videos, easy-to-follow explanations, and self-quizzes, designed to help increase your understanding of the research process. A guide with easy-to-navigate chapters and tips to help you figure out what your instructor may be asking for in a writing assignment or research project. Time savings and increased confidence to successfully carry out research for your class. Get started with Choosing and Using Sources today. ❱❱❱ View additional formats of this book.

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Chapters cover developing research questions, understanding types of sources, searching for information, evaluating sources, and avoiding plagiarism. Each chapter includes self-quizzes and activities to reinforce core concepts and help you apply them.

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Engaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects. Save Valuable Time with Choosing and Using Sources, a Free ebook NewParaWith this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. With Choosing and Using Sources, you have: Research help through short videos, easy-to-follow explanations, and self-quizzes, designed to help increase your understanding of the research process. A guide with easy-to-navigate chapters and tips to help you figure out what your instructor may be asking for in a writing assignment or research project. Time savings and increased confidence to successfully carry out research for your class. Get started with Choosing and Using Sources today. ❱❱❱ View additional formats of this book.

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Engaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects. Save Valuable Time with Choosing and Using Sources, a Free ebook NewParaWith this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. With Choosing and Using Sources, you have: Research help through short videos, easy-to-follow explanations, and self-quizzes, designed to help increase your understanding of the research process. A guide with easy-to-navigate chapters and tips to help you figure out what your instructor may be asking for in a writing assignment or research project. Time savings and increased confidence to successfully carry out research for your class. Get started with Choosing and Using Sources today. ❱❱❱ View additional formats of this book.

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Engaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects. Save Valuable Time with Choosing and Using Sources, a Free ebook NewParaWith this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. With Choosing and Using Sources, you have: Research help through short videos, easy-to-follow explanations, and self-quizzes, designed to help increase your understanding of the research process. A guide with easy-to-navigate chapters and tips to help you figure out what your instructor may be asking for in a writing assignment or research project. Time savings and increased confidence to successfully carry out research for your class. Get started with Choosing and Using Sources today. ❱❱❱ View additional formats of this book.

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The Citations lesson is mapped to Information has Value and Scholarship as Conversation Frames. It discusses why citations are a foundation of scholarly communication and the basic components of a citation. Through infographics and videos, students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting.

This resource is published by Civix.Ctrl-F is a unit created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education. This unit teaches students how to verify facts and information when reading informational text online.

Aproximació general a la definició de ciència oberta i als seus pilars bàsics i presentacio  de les principals institucions i/o plataformes digitals relacionades amb la ciència oberta i l’arqueologia a nivell internacional, europeu i català.

Students in a groups determine which everyday objects are related to each other.

Students will learn how species shift along environmental gradients (temperature, precipitation, and vegetation) in response to climate change over the last 20,000 years, from the time of the Last Glacial Maximum through deglaciation and the Holocene. The activity involves making maps of species distribution using the Neotoma database. Students will develop skills in data analysis and interpretation over a two-to-four class arc.

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This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic
and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair
use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best
practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library
community itself.

What cognitive styles do we use to interact with technology? The GenderMag Project has identified five cognitive facets we bring to our use of technology.

Ce cours en ligne porte sur Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/), un gestionnaire de citations gratuit qui vous aide à recueillir, organiser et citer des articles de journaux scientifiques et autres sources d'information. Ce cours explique comment installer et utiliser les principales fonctionnalités de Zotero. Utilisez ce cours de la manière qui vous convient le mieux. Complétez tout le cours ou complétez seulement les parties sur lesquelles vous avez des questions. Regardez les vidéos, ou lisez les transcriptions, ou téléchargez les fichiers d'instructions et apprenez à utiliser Zotero en l'essayant vous-même.

Presentació utilitzada en activitats formatives per a investigadors de la UPC. S'analitza la importància de gestionar la identatitat digital de l'investigador per incrementar el seu impacte.

     This is a pathfinder designed for users who are new to Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public.  The purpose of this pathfinder is to be a companion resource to the February 25, 2023 presentation Create Accurately and Interactive Dashboards with Tableau.  The Tableau Student Ambassador presenters of the workshop were Taiwo Adegite, Junior Analyst; and Zena Patton, Corporate Learning Professional, and Librarian.  To learn more about the Tableau Community Leader Ambassador program, go to the following link  https://www.tableau.com/community/community-leaders/ambassadors      This companion resource is an artifact of a global, collaborative effort between Taiwo Adegite (Nigeria), Junior Analyst; and Zena Patton (United States of America), Corporate Learning Professional, and Librarian.Last update April 15, 2023.  This update includes resources from Flip the Tableau! Learning Experience.   

In EARTH 801, you will develop skills in a programming language designed for visual arts and visualization while exploring Earth science topics. Specifically, you'll learn and practice digital graphics capabilities in order to render Earth science concepts that are otherwise difficult to visualize due to complicated space and time scales. Here, you will interact with large, open, freely-available data sets by collecting, plotting, and analyzing them using a variety of computational methods. You'll be ready to teach secondary school students a range of Next Generation Science Standard skills involving data collecting, manipulation, analysis, and plotting. You'll also read and discuss current research regarding the teaching, learning, and evaluation of visualization skills, as well as multiple external representations of science concepts.

The first video in Lesson 02: Computer Hardware. This video takes a quick look at the categories of computer hardware: processing, storage, input, and output.

Before keyboards, printers, even monitors there was processing. Processing is the reason computers are computers. Processing is the ability of the computer to take in raw data and basically make sense of it.

In this video we look at: Microprocessor (CPUs), Moore's Law, and Motherboard.

We examine storage devices in computers. This storage lecture has been broken up into to two section, this one focuses on hard drives and RAM, the next video covered removable storage devices.

The second part of our storage videos. This video looks at some of the removable storage media you can use. We look at floppy drives, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and ROM (flash memory).

Video 5 in our introduction to computers series looks at computer input devices. We examine some common input devices and look at how to clean your keyboard and mouse.

Our last video in our Computer Hardware lesson, part of the Introduction to Computers course.

This video looks at the most common output devices found on a computer we also list out top 5 resources, be sure to check them out.

http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.newegg.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/

The first video in the Computer Software series, part of our Introduction to Computers course. This video looks at the general types of software, software development, the software development life cycle, as well as explains what computer programers do.

Welcome to one of the most geeky videos in the entire series. This video will introduce you to the computer boot process, the way a computer starts from the moment you turn the computer on, till the operating system kicks in.

Video 3 of our Introduction to Computer course. This course looks at the basics of operating systems. We take a look at what an operating system is, file systems, user interfaces and command line.

In the previous video we looked at the basics of operating systems. In this video we take a look at the current operating systems available to consumer. In addition to looking at Windows, we also cover the current Mac OS X, Linux and Mobile Operating systems.

Links from video:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Our last video in the Computer Software lesson, part of our Introduction to Computers curriculum.

In this video we look at the types of application users can find. We talk about business software and personal software. We also give our 3-5 to picks for viewers to check out.

Links from video:
http://www.lynda.com/
http://teamtreehouse.com/
https://www.udemy.com/courses/
https://evernote.com/
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
http://bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
http://www.cultofmac.com/90060/how-to-completely-uninstall-software-under-mac-os-x-macrx/
https://reporting.bsa.org/r/report/add.aspx?src=us&ln=en-us

The text, labs, and review questions in this book are designed as an introduction to the applied topic of computer security (cybersecurity). With these resources students will learn ways of preventing, identifying, understanding, and recovering from attacks against computer systems. This text also presents the evolution of computer security, the main threats, attacks and mechanisms, applied computer operation and security protocols, main data transmission and storage protection methods, cryptography, network systems availability, recovery, and business continuation procedures.

Video 4 in our Introduction to the CompTIA A+ Certification Exam looks at the tools the computer technician should have in their bag in order to get the job done. We look at hardware tools for computer repair and software tools for computer repair.

Unit 1 of this Module gives a general overview of open access movement, its genesis, and various actors. It also relates to two other interlinked public movements, namely, open source software (OSS) movement and open educational resources (OER).

Unit 2 titled “Routes to Open Access” gives overview and definitional approaches two different routes of OA – the Green and Gold routes. It also discusses a hybrid model, where toll-access e-journals are publishing open access articles. Here, subscription-based contents and open access contents coexist in a single platform.

Unit 3 titled “Networks and Organizations Promoting Open Access” elaborates roles of different regional and international networks and organizations in promoting OA. Various OA actors and advocates are found to harmonize global OA movement through formal networks and coalitions. These networks and organizations also strengthen capacity and capability of local institutions and help them in social capital formation.

Unit 4 titled “Study of OA Mandates and Policies” elaborates different institutional and funders’ OA mandates. Some of these mandates have become model OA policies for similar institutions and organizations.

Unit 5 titled “Issues and Challenges of Open Access” discusses concerns, issues and challenges related to OA scholarly literature. No doubt, there is apprehension due to arrival of predatory OA journals in OA domain, with vested profiteering interest. But there are checks and balances to avoid such predatory journals. Due to OA advocacy and awareness raising efforts, OA knowledge producers have improved researchers’ perceptions in quality and recognition of OA literature. This Unit briefly discusses different metrics and performance indicators available for assessing OA scholarly literature.

Using multi-media and basic atmospheric physics, students investigate contrails and chemtrails. Students apply previous learning about pseudoscience, and couple that with an understanding of the atmosphere to reach a decision about chemtrails. Students write an analysis paper on the issue of chemtrails, followed by a decision paper about whether society should be concerned about chemtrails.

In this section, you and your team will engage in a Landscape Analysis to uncover key structures and supports that can guide your work to support Accessibility in OER. You may or may not answer all of these questions, but this is an offering.

Information about how to determine whether a published work between 1923 and 1978 is in the public domain.

This interactive learning module explores the history of copyright right from the “Battle of the Book” in the 6th century, through the invention of the printing press; and up to the 1968 Australian Copyright Act. It aims to provide an understanding of why the laws were necessary and what their implications are for today’s world. After completing this module, students should be able to:

* explain the drivers for and rationale of early copyright legislation;
* understand the impact of the printing press on historical concepts of authorship and copyright legislation;
* define modern copyright; interpret Australian copyright principles;
* evaluate the suitability of current copyright and
* defend the need for copyright reform in the future.

This module can be downloaded and embedded in course sites.

Please note: a few of the supplementary/additional (non-core) resources linked to in this resource are restricted to University of South Australia staff and students. These have been clearly annotated. This module has been created using H5P software.

This infographic introduces the basics of copyright in the United States. The following link will take you to an accessible infographic transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1enVXgl6GqqwBluClRWckIYYhxcabPfQ97HZiqqG7p48/edit?usp=sharing

This curriculum, developed as the final project for the Creative Commons for Academic Librarians Certificate course, is designed for students in introductory Library and Information Science courses. The unit offers a broad overview of fundamental concepts in copyright, fair use, and open licensing. The materials include readings, multimedia resources, discussion questions, and practical assignments. The curriculum addresses real-world challenges faced by librarians, explores the nuances of open licenses, and guides students through hands-on activities, fostering a deeper understanding of copyright issues in the digital age.

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Pressbooks has the power to mimic texts, but stop at that? There are many designs you can make to increase engagement for the reader. This is an Pressbook that showcases examples for what your new pressbook can look like.

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This survey instrument is designed to understand how creators use (or decide not to use) Creative Commons licenses. The target survey participants are people who create materials for documentation, maintenance, instruction, learning, and/or revitalization of Indigenous, minority, endangered, and/or low-resourced languages. Part 1 of this survey is designed to learn about the digital creation formats and sharing practices in this specific community of practice. Parts 2 through 4 of this survey contain general questions intended to elicit information about research participants’ knowledge and awareness of Creative Commons (CC) licenses; understanding of how to apply CC licenses to their digital creations; interest in and experience with applying CC licenses to their digital creations; motivations for and barriers to applying CC licenses to their digital creations; and understanding of how to adapt or reuse digital creations licensed with CC licenses.

This survey can be easily adapted for use in other communities of practice by editing some of the questions and multiple-choice responses.

If you wish to read this survey and background information about it, please start with the file ReadMe-CCLuseSurvey.pdf.

The file Creative_Commons_License_Use_Survey.qsf is a Qualtrics Survey File that can be used to recreate this survey in your own instance of the Qualtrics software.

The file Creative_Commons_License_Use_Survey.pdf is a PDF of the survey. This version includes Creative Commons graphics that are used in the survey questions. The file ReadMe-CCLuseSurvey.pdf does not include the graphics.

This infographic introduces the main aspects of Creative Commons licenses. An accessible infographic transcript is available at this url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHMBXlnnMKMxEcTpNv9QZ97rqf_Lt7i9H4ipg--fmC0/edit?usp=sharing

Creative Commons Licenses & Public Domain Tools -- The Anatomy of a CC License as Ice Cream

Overview on how to use Credo Reference, provided by Shelton State Community College for use by enrolled students.All videos are closed captioned.

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A reading guide

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A perfect introduction to the exploding field of Data Science for the curious, first-time student. The author brings his trademark conversational tone to the important pillars of the discipline: exploratory data analysis, choices for structuring data, causality, machine learning principles, and introductory Python programming using open-source Jupyter Notebooks. This engaging read will allow any dedicated learner to build the skills necessary to contribute to the Data Science revolution, regardless of background.

Autumn 2022 Edition

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This textbook is based on materials sourced from different practitioners from the world of research design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. The author and her collaborators have also added materials to supplement the available literature. This activity is aligned with SDG4 – Quality Education and SDG10 - Reduced Inequalities.  NewParaThis first edition is running concurrently with Customer Insights. Second Edition.

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Increasingly, the concept of marketing research is being replaced with the term ‘customer or consumer insights’. As decision-makers are bombarded with data, it is important to have an Insights Team or Department which can sift through it all and identify those nuggets of information that can meaningfully explain human behaviour. Such insights must translate into an informed business strategy for success. This book has been curated to ensure that the practice of data collection, analysis, and interpretation is presented from an industry perspective. This first edition is running concurrently with Customer Insights. Second Edition https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/customer-insights/

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Este recurso educativo tiene la finalidad de ayudar al desarrollo de habilidades científicas de los estudiantes, fomentando los saberes heurísticos, relacionados con el acceso, evaluación, recuperación y uso de información de diversas fuentes, esta infografía es un tutorial de cono hacer una búsqueda bibliográfica en PubMed. Ha sido elaborada por los profesores: Dra. Aracely López Monteon, Dr. Angel Ramos Ligonio, Dra. Esmeralda Sánchez Pavón y Dr. Jesús Torres Montero, todos profesores de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de la Universidad Veracruzana, Orizaba, Veracruz, México

El propósito de este manual es determinar procedimientos generales para el oficial y personal militar que ejerce la función logística, con el fin de que se administren los medios o recursos de tal forma que pueda ejecutar un apoyo logístico integral eficiente como oportuno al personal y unidades militares en el teatro de operaciones. 

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Data analytics is a rapidly evolving field. In today's labour market, knowing how to acquire, process, and interpret large amounts of data to make optimal decisions is crucial for many professionals, especially those in business and engineering. This open textbook, "a new online course" if you will, focuses on three key concept areas: data acquisition, data processing, and decision-making models. In this course, students will be able to develop advanced knowledge and skills to acquire related data for operations of business or projects; apply quantitative literacy skills such as statistics and machine learning; and use predictive or prescriptive modeling to make timely, actionable, and meaningful decisions.

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Data analytics is a rapidly evolving field. In today’s labour market, knowing how to acquire, process, and interpret large amounts of data to make optimal decisions is crucial for many professionals, especially those in business and engineering. This open textbook, “a new online course” if you will, focuses on three key concept areas: data acquisition, data processing, and decision-making models. In this course, students will be able to develop advanced knowledge and skills to acquire related data for operations of business or projects; apply quantitative literacy skills such as statistics and machine learning; and use predictive or prescriptive modeling to make timely, actionable, and meaningful decisions.

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Data analytics is a rapidly evolving field. In today's labour market, knowing how to acquire, process, and interpret large amounts of data to make optimal decisions is crucial for many professionals, especially those in business and engineering. This open textbook, "a new online course" if you will, focuses on three key concept areas: data acquisition, data processing, and decision-making models. In this course, students will be able to develop advanced knowledge and skills to acquire related data for operations of business or projects; apply quantitative literacy skills such as statistics and machine learning; and use predictive or prescriptive modeling to make timely, actionable, and meaningful decisions.

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Data analytics is a rapidly evolving field. In today’s labour market, knowing how to acquire, process, and interpret large amounts of data to make optimal decisions is crucial for many professionals, especially those in business and engineering. This open textbook, “a new online course” if you will, focuses on three key concept areas: data acquisition, data processing, and decision-making models. In this course, students will be able to develop advanced knowledge and skills to acquire related data for operations of business or projects; apply quantitative literacy skills such as statistics and machine learning; and use predictive or prescriptive modeling to make timely, actionable, and meaningful decisions.

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Beta Version

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A Claremont Graduate University EDUC 448 Fall 2021 Course Publication

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This glossary is intended to support professionals who are seeking to understand Data Management and Governance in the context of K-12 and higher education. The definitions included in this ebook provide a fundamental understanding of common Data Management and Governance terms. This glossary was co-created by education professionals and graduate students enrolled in Claremont Graduate University’s EDUC 448: Data Management & Governance course taught by Dr. Gwen Garrison, PhD during the Fall 2021 semester.

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Cleaning, reshaping, and transforming data for analysis and visualization, with R and the Tidyverse

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The first video in our database lesson, part of the Introduction to Computer series.
This video looks at the basics of databases. We define database, as well as key terms to know.

Database Management Systems is the software that allows us to create and use a database. This video looks at the DBMS, their functions, some examples of popular software solutions and a quick look at Structured Query Language (SQL)

The database management software is the program used to create and mange the database. The database model is the architecture the DBMS used to store objects within that database.

Our final database video. This one looks at some odds and ends. We examine: Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Big Data. I also talk about the ethics of data mining from the NSA and CDC, and how they are different.

We also give out top picks for the lesson.

Links from Video:
•http://www.w3schools.com/sql/
•What is Database & SQL by Guru99 http://youtu.be/FR4QIeZaPeM
•What is a database http://youtu.be/t8jgX1f8kc4
•MySQL Database For Beginners https://www.udemy.com/mysql-database-for-beginners2/

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Database Design - 2nd Edition covers database systems and database design concepts. New to this edition are SQL info, additional examples, key terms and review exercises at the end of each chapter.

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This second edition of Database Design book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process. Topics include: The history of databases Characteristics and benefits of databases Data models Data modelling Classification of database management systems Integrity rules and constraints Functional dependencies Normalization Database development process

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The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Topics include Agriculture, Business, Climate, Education, Energy, Ecosystems, Manufacturing and more.

In this lab, students are introduced to the difference between relative and absolute dating, using the students themselves as the material to be ordered. Initially, the students are asked to develop physical clues to put themselves in order from youngest to oldest (exposing the inferences we make unconsciously about people's ages), and this will be refined/modified using a list of current events from an appropriate historical period that more and more of the students will remember, depending on their age (among other variables). Absolute age is introduced by having the students order themselves by birth decade, year, month, and day, and comparing the absolute age order to the order worked out in the relative-dating exercise, with a discussion of dating precision and accuracy.

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Foundations and philosophical applications of Bayesian decision theory, game theory and theory of collective choice. Why should degrees of belief be probabilities? Is it always rational to maximize expected utility? If so, why and what is its utility? What is a solution to a game? What does a game-theoretic solution concept such as Nash equilibrium say about how rational players will, or should, act in a game? How are the values and the actions of groups, institutions and societies related to the values and actions of the individuals that constitute them?

The Dependability Checklist is a tool to help students evaluate resources for their assessments. Students answer ten 'yes' or 'no' questions about a resource and then generate a score indicating how trustworthy or dependable that resource is. Working through the Checklist introduces students to indicators of reliability. As students become more confident in evaluating sources, they won't need to rely on the Checklist. This tool is used as part of teaching evaluation in first year units at Deakin University. It can be used as part of assessment or activities where students evaluate resources providing the dependability score.

The book offers a blend of theory and practice in guiding readers to apply design thinking principles to solving some of our world’s biggest problems. At the same time, readers are encouraged to become aware of new and emerging technologies that make prototyping and applying solutions a reality.

These slides provide a brief overview of some of the problematic histories and legacies of the Dewey Decimal Classification System (and Dewey himself), particularly focusing on heterosexism and cissexism, but also sexism, racism, colonialism, and more discrimination. They critique the idea that libraries and librarians are neutral, discuss some of the creative and caring ways library workers and communities have challenged and continue to challenge and change these systems, and suggest ways we can all challenge discrimination in library classification (and other systems, policies and practices) too and why it is important that we do so.

Differentiating open access and open educational resource can be a challenge in some contexts. Excellent resources such as "How Open Is It?: A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals" (CC BY) https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit created by SPARC, PLOS, and OASPA greatly aid us in understanding the relative openness of journals. However, visual resources to conceptually differentiate open educational resources (OER) from resources disseminated using an open access approach do not currently exist. Until now.

This one page introductory guide differentiates OER and OA materials on the basis of purpose (teaching vs. research), method of access (analog and digital), and in terms of the relative freedoms offered by different levels of Creative Commons licenses, the most common open license. Many other open licenses, including open software licenses also exist.

Hello and welcome to the Digital Citizenship Toolkit. Have you ever wondered if your phone is listening to you? Do you ever look to the Internet for the answer to a question, and hours later, find that you are more confused than before? Have you argued with a friend or relative about a meme? Have you been tempted to share your own thoughts and feelings online, but resisted for fear of trolls? This book delves into these issues and more.

Welcome to a  short training module on digital competence frameworks for instructors. This training module aims to help instructors working in post-secondary settings to identify and compare features of four popular digital competence frameworks: T-PACK, UNESCO's ICT framework, JISC's Digital Capabilities frameworks, and the European Commission's DigCompEdu framework. A fifth digital competence framework, Flexicomp, is also described in this module- this framework was developed in partnership with instructors and learners in four European countries, and is aimed specifically at instructors working in the  VET sector, and-or with vulnerable learners. 

We partnered with students to create Digital Essentials, a series of online modules for students to quickly build digital skills for study and work.
The modules cover different digital capabilities for creation, communication, data, information, learning and functional skills.
The modules are on the Pressbooks platform and include H5P content for interactivity and self-assessment. There is also a short quiz at the end of each module to check your knowledge.
The modules include:
Accessibility
Artificial Intelligence
Choose the right tool
Communicate and collaborate
Digital security
eProfessionalism
Find and using media
Information essentials
Internet essentials
Social media
Types of assignments
Working with data and files
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This book provides first and second year community college students with important foundational research skills necessary for navigating through digital information.

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The first video in the digital media series. Digital Media is defined as: any media that are encoded in a machine-readable format. It can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on computers.

In this lesson we will look at the following:
-Digital Publications
-Digital Audio
-Digital Graphics
-Digital Photography
-Digital Video

We continue our look at digital media with digital publications. We examine eBooks, self publishing, two great authors, the death of traditional newspapers, blog and microblogs.

Links from Video:
-http://www.createspace.com/
-http://www.lulu.com/
-http://jlbourne.com/
-http://monsterhunternation.com/
-https://wordpress.com/
-https://www.tumblr.com/
-https://www.facebook.com/mrfordsclasslearning
-https://twitter.com/mrfordsclass

Part 1 of 2 focusing on digital audio. This is part of our Introduction to Computers - Digital Media lessons.

This lesson looks at:
-Sampling Rate
-Bit Depth
-Mono/Stereo/Surround
-Recording formats

Part 2 of 2 focusing on digital audio. This is part of our Introduction to Computers - Digital Media lessons.

This lesson looks at how we get audio into and out of the computer:
-Sound cards
-Microphones
-Audio editing software
-Speaker configurations

Links from Lesson:
-http://grooveshark.com/
-http://www.jango.com/
-http://www.pandora.com/
-https://www.spotify.com
-http://www.iheart.com/
-http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Video 5 of our Digital Media, Introduction to Computers series. In this video we look at digital imagining.

Topics covered:
•Color Modes
•Image File Format
•Digital Cameras
•Image Quality
•Image Editing Software
•Online Photo Albums

Links from Video:
•https://www.flickr.com/
•http://picasa.google.com/
•http://www.shutterfly.com/
•http://www.smugmug.com/
•http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dslr-vs-mirrorless-cameras,news-17736.html
•http://www.gimp.org/

The last video in our digital media series from Introduction to Computers.

This video looks at the basic of digital video including: frame rate per second, SD/HD, pixels, aspect ratio, things to look for when buying, streaming video, and video editing software. We also give out digital media picks.

Links from Video:
-http://www.videomaker.com/
-File Format http://bit.ly/1m5gMVM
-http://www.hulu.com/
-http://vimeo.com/
-https://www.netflix.com
-http://www.ustream.tv/
-http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-http://www.mediacollege.com/
-http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

A Digital Project Preservation Plan is designed to help with organizing preservation efforts for digital projects. Initially drafted as a companion guide meant to fill the gap on best methods for preserving digital scholarship or digital humanities projects, it can also be applied to digital projects outside the humanities. This preservation plan is most beneficial to those digital humanities (DH) project creators who need guidance on how to start a digital project with preservation in mind. Although the DH community has shared resources and case studies, the examples available tend to focus on DH development, and less on DH preservation. These resources are also located in disparate locations. The Digital Project Preservation Plan is a singular guide, focusing on DH preservation, as a starting point with references to more resources and related DH practices. This is a working document, available to practitioners in whole or part; ideally, it will be used in the early stages of project planning and consulted and revised regularly. The preservation infrastructure should be designed and built as a collaborative effort from the beginning of the project. As priorities, methods and technologies change, the preservation plan will need to be updated and modified accordingly.

This book has been used in humanities (history) and media courses but is applicable to any course that has digital/web project components.

The Table of Contents for this publication includes:
Summary, Project Charter, Digital File Inventory, Additional Considerations, Preservation Plan-A Summary and Checklist, References/Plan Resources, Appendix A: Project Charter, Appendix B: Digital File Inventory, Appendix C: Project Profile, Appendix D: Collaborators Web Publishing Agreement, Appendix E: Universal Design Checklist, Appendix F: Preservation Guidance Checklist, and the Glossary.

Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is Powerpoint.

The Living Book of Digital Skills (You never knew you needed until now) is a living, open source online guide to 'modern not-quite-technical computer skills' for researchers and the broader academic community.

Overview on how to use DigitalTheatre+, provided by Shelton State Community College for use by enrolled students.All videos are closed captioned.

Our second video in the free Introduction to Computer series. This video defines and examines what digital literacy means. We also look at why it is important.

Our third video defines the term digital. We also explain what binary is and show the viewer how to count in binary and do conversions from our every day base 10 numbering system to binary.

The fourth and final video in our Lesson 1 Digital World series looks at what exactly is a computer. We take a quick look at the history of the PC, the general components of a computer and answer the question "what kind of computer should I buy."

Our next lesson series, will focus on computer hardware.

Links from video:
http://lifehacker.com/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/
http://www.techguylabs.com/
http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/

This training module aims to help instructors working in post-secondary settings to identify and compare features of four popular digital competence frameworks: T-PACK, UNESCO's ICT framework, JISC's Digital Capabilities frameworks, and the European Commission's DigCompEdu framework. A fifth digital competence framework, Flexicomp, is also described in this module- this framework was developed in partnership with instructors and learners in four European countries, and is aimed specifically at instructors working in the VET sector, and-or with vulnerable learners. The frameworks are presented in two films:

Frameworks related to digital competence for instructorsLinks to an external site. (20 minutes) and

An Introduction to FlexicompLinks to an external site. (23 minutes).

Along with the two films describing these frameworks, we have included:

A summary of the Flexicomp framework;
An elaborated Flexicomp framework, giving examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes for 26 specific competences;
Suggestions for learning activities related to instructors' digital competence and;
References and resources.

Välkommen till denna korta självledda utbildningsmodul om digital kompetens för instruktörer. Modulen tar ungefär en timme att genomföra och ger översikter över flera populära ramverk som beskriver digital kompetens. Vi introducerar dig också till ett nytt ramverk för digital kompetens, Flexicomp, som utvecklats i samarbete med instruktörer och studenter i Spanien, Italien, Storbritannien och Sverige. 

In a world of 24-hour news cycles, social media, and deep fakes it is difficult to discern what is true, what is opinion, and what is out-right false. The ability and habit of fact-checking information is increasingly important in light of recent global health crises and upcoming elections. This course will cover strategies for identifying misleading media, fact-checking news, and engaging in critical discussions about the information that we consume and share. This course is designed to dicussion-based and focused on personal reflection and practice. This course was created for the Honors Program at NC State University

Word Count: 280219

ISBN: 978-0-9997970-1-3

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Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster provides a foundational knowledge of today’s chaotic online information environment. Readers will come to understand various concerning concepts such as information overload and fake news, while engaging in discussions about familiar online entities including trolls, bots and influencers. Each chapter culminates in an important lesson about how to begin to deal with the disaster and take meaningful steps towards becoming responsible digital citizens.

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Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster is an accompaniment to an online course with the same title. The first four chapters provide an overview of fundamental concepts and phenomena that have led us to our current online information environment. Chapter 1, Information Disorder, examines information and its evolution, looking briefly at historical and contemporary trends in the areas of misinformation, disinformation, online propaganda and more. Chapter 2, Information Distribution, provides a simple overview of the news industry including journalism and editing, as well as the progression of fake news–a politicized concept which is leading us into a post-truth world. Chapter 3, Information Automation, takes readers through the automatic aspects of information exploration, examining search engines, algorithms, and associated concepts. Chapter 4, Information Manipulation, explores human interactions with information, focusing on how humans share, consume, and interact with information on social media. Each chapter provides the reader with a base level of a specific literacy (information, media, digital and meta) making them better equipped to confront disinformation. The final chapter provides readers with various frameworks and tools for effectively evaluating information and suggests that readers integrate them into their online search behaviors.

Word Count: 35534

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A Student's Guide to Finding and Using the Best Sources

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A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluating that information, and a recognition that information has value.

Word Count: 6624

Included H5P activities: 27

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A Student's Guide to Finding and Using the Best Sources

Short Description:
A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluating that information, and a recognition that information has value.

Word Count: 5735

Included H5P activities: 36

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A Student's Guide to Finding and Using the Best Sources

Short Description:
A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluating that information, and a recognition that information has value.

Word Count: 8762

Included H5P activities: 38

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Photo by freestocks on UnsplashThe focus of this class is on learning the basics of commonly used computer applications, web concepts, multimedia, and general digital literacy to prepare you for living a digital life. Students will be able to navigate basic computer functions, MS Office Suite, understand computer ethics and the basics of ADA and accessiblity. The course is designed to gain and enhance students' abilities to effectively apply digital tools, technologies, and resources to communicate ideas and solve problems. Students will learn how to navigate, evaluate, create, and critically apply information by using a wide variety of applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access and MS PowerPoint.  This course will also provide guidance on the professional and ethical application of these tools.  Materials in this course are OER materials as well as published articles and videos.

Une anthologie bilingue de textes - Una antología bilingüe de textos de Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008)

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Avec Paulo Freire, Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008), est l’un des pères fondateurs des approches décoloniales latino-américaines en sciences sociales. Pourtant, alors que le premier est une figure familière du paysage des sciences sociales francophones, le second est quasiment inconnu. Cette anthologie francophone, la première à ce jour, propose cinq textes, publiés entre 1968 et 2003, en plus d’une conférence inédite prononcée en 1966. Elle vise à présenter la proposition épistémologique de Fals Borda d’une science latino-américaine émancipée des cadres théoriques européens et nord-américains, et orientée vers la production partagée des connaissances entre universitaires et mouvements sociaux pour favoriser la transformation de la société vers une plus grande justice sociale. Chaque texte est présenté dans sa version espagnole originale et dans sa traduction française, avec une brève mise en contexte permettant de situer celui-ci dans l’œuvre de l’auteur. Une introduction présente la thématique de l’anthologie et la trajectoire intellectuelle de Fals Borda.Junto con Paulo Freire, Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008) fue uno de los padresfundadores de los enfoques descoloniales latinoamericanos en las ciencias sociales. Sinembargo, mientras que el primero es una figura familiar en el panorama francés de lasciencias sociales, el segundo es casi desconocido. Esta antología francófona, la primera hasta la fecha, ofrece cinco textos publicados entre 1968 y 2003, además de una conferencia inédita realizada en 1966. Su objetivo es presentar la propuesta epistemológica de Fals Borda de una ciencia latinoamericana emancipada de los marcos teóricos europeo y norteamericano, y orientada a la producción de conocimientos compartida entre los académicos y los movimientos sociales para promover la transformación de la sociedad hacia una mayor justicia social. Cada texto se presenta en su versión original en español y en su traducción al francés, con una breve contextualización que permite ubicarlo en el trabajo del autor. Una introducción presenta el tema de la antología y la trayectoria intelectual de Fals Borda.

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Avec Paulo Freire, Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008), est l’un des pères fondateurs des approches décoloniales latino-américaines en sciences sociales. Pourtant, alors que le premier est une figure familière du paysage des sciences sociales francophones, le second est quasiment inconnu. Cette anthologie francophone, la première à ce jour, propose cinq textes, publiés entre 1968 et 2003, en plus d’une conférence inédite prononcée en 1966. Elle vise à présenter la proposition épistémologique de Fals Borda d’une science latino-américaine émancipée des cadres théoriques européens et nord-américains, et orientée vers la production partagée des connaissances entre universitaires et mouvements sociaux pour favoriser la transformation de la société vers une plus grande justice sociale. Chaque texte est présenté dans sa version espagnole originale et dans sa traduction française, avec une brève mise en contexte permettant de situer celui-ci dans l’œuvre de l’auteur. Une introduction présente la thématique de l’anthologie et la trajectoire intellectuelle de Fals Borda.

Junto con Paulo Freire, Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008) fue uno de los padres fundadores de los enfoques descoloniales latinoamericanos en las ciencias sociales. Sin embargo, mientras que el primero es una figura familiar en el panorama francés de las ciencias sociales, el segundo es casi desconocido. Esta antología francófona, la primera hasta la fecha, ofrece cinco textos publicados entre 1968 y 2003, además de una conferencia inédita realizada en 1966. Su objetivo es presentar la propuesta epistemológica de Fals Borda de una ciencia latinoamericana emancipada de los marcos teóricos europeo y norteamericano, y orientada a la producción de conocimientos compartida entre los académicos y los movimientos sociales para promover la transformación de la sociedad hacia una mayor justicia social. Cada texto se presenta en su versión original en español y en su traducción al francés, con una breve contextualización que permite ubicarlo en el trabajo del autor. Una introducción presenta el tema de la antología y la trayectoria intelectual de Fals Borda.

Word Count: 82715

ISBN: 978-2-925128-97-0

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This module illusrates navigation to and use of EBSCOhost from the Alabama Virtual Library.  All videos are closed-captioned.

This is a Canvas module to help students become familiar with OneSearch, our library's discovery service. This includes finding books and articles in OneSearch, a video on using OneSearch, and a short quiz on using OneSearch.

This is a Canvas module to help students become familiar with using library databases and understand the utility in searching across multiple databases. Under "Choosing Library Databases: Subject-Specific Databases", faculty should choose the disciplinary page(s) that are most appropriate for their course.