It is essential that you keep steady attention to the course, to the modules, to the readings, and to the blog postings from your classmates.
Modules include the following sections:
Things to Read
The required readings explore topics you are expected to understand and incorporate into your assignments for all modules in the course.
Things to View
The assigned and required media-based presentations extend your knowledge and offer new dimensions to the topics.
Things to Explore
These materials are optional enhancements to the course content that offer more insight into the module topics.
Module 1: Information Communities and the Social Construction of Knowledge: Introduction
Module 2: Information Users and Information Seeking Behavior
Module 3: Information Seeking and Information Communities
Module 4: Researching Information Communities
Module 5:Connecting Users with Information: Research-Based Resources and Services
Module 6: Community-Generated Information Sources and Services
Module 8: Ethical Issues and Information Communities
Module 9: Intellectual Freedom and American Law
Week 10: Information & Misinformation (Coming Soon)
Module 12: Teaching & Learning
Module 13: Emerging Technologies
Week 15: Course Wrap-up/Open
Week 16: Term Paper Due