1. Secondary school
2. Tertiary school
3. Format: E-Learning
4. Format: Blended
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The Internet has lots of information that may be useful for your project work. The difficult part, however, is finding those bits of useful information!

How many times have you spent hours looking for information but in the end left frustrated with having found very little? It does not have to be this way.  In this course, you’ll learn a set of smart techniques that will help you find the information you need quickly.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply the 4-step search strategy
• Formulate a search statement using appropriate search operators and keywords
• Evaluate the credibility of websites results and their contents using five criteria

Course outline

Module 1:

• Develop a search strategy

Module 2:

• Use basic and advanced search operators
• Use an Advanced Search form
• Search by specific types of resource and websites

Module 3:

• Evaluate search results using the 5 evaluation criteria