Where can we find the best learning resources in a crowded field?

 

 

 

 

 

At the SearchResearch blog by Dan Russell there is an excellent post on July 5, 2024 titled Answer: How to find the best learning resources in a crowded field? He has the following headings:

 

What do I want to learn about this topic?

  Topic area

  Breadth vs, depth

  Skill vs. knowledge learning

Organize your learning approach

  Get an overview to start

  Leverage other people’s overviews

  Make a list of what you want to learn

Find high quality resources that match your interests

 

That high-quality resource might be a Great Courses video collection or a for Dummies book. On  February 4, 2019 I blogged about Reliable places to find information for your speeches. In that post I said:

 

“Unless you are already very experienced at searching (like I am), I would suggest you should start by interviewing a reference librarian at your friendly local public library. Ask her both about books and which of their databases you can best use for finding information to put in your presentation.”

 

One of those databases would have come from your state. In Idaho it would be the EBSCOhost Research Platform, which contains ebooks, magazine articles, and newspaper articles. It is powerful, but not simple to learn. That database has subject indexing, which lets you narrow down topics better than a search engine like Google.

 

The Where question mark cloud was adapted from Openclipart.