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Best practices in conducting online research

Best practices in conducting online research

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Best practices in conducting online research

- [Voiceover] Another great benefit of the Internet is that it gives us instant access to an incredible amount of information. This has revolutionized the ways that we're able to learn, work, and live. With this incredible amount of information, however, comes a lot of not-so-incredible information. Although the Internet is an excellent place to do research, it's important that we help students become intelligent, informed consumers of this information. In this video, we'll take a look at some best practices for conducting online research that we need to help our students to understand. The first thing that we need to emphasize to students is obvious. Just because something is on the Internet doesn't mean that it's true. Now, over the years, I've been amazed at the number of times I've seen students submit false information which they claim to think was true because they found it on the Internet. So how can we help our students to do a better job of finding credible sources that they…

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