Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

This interdisciplinary online course is aimed at students without previous experience in the area of information search competences.

Contents and exercises are provided on the learning platform Ilias. Personal meetings for advisory purposes can be arranged when needed. Participants will be enabled to work through all tests of the self-study course and to complete and submit the corresponding exercise form.

Please note the following information for the summer semester25:

The online course starts on April 28, 2025 on Ilias. The participants will receive an introductory email on that day with all important information about the registration.

Short description of the course contents:

The online course Literature Searching teaches the basics of academic research – from preparation and execution to the evaluation and management of the sources found. Building on this, the course addresses how the research process in a team and collaborative literature management can be successful.Through illustrative case studies and integrative tests, you will become familiar with the various steps of the literature-searching process. You will practise using various search tools and strategies, learn more about the functionality and use of suitable search operators and gain profound insights into the content evaluation of sources, the scheduling of literature searching and literature management.

The online course is made available via the Ilias learning platform.

 
Work Expenditure:

1 ECTS: Exercises of the self-study course and completion and submission of the corresponding exercise form.

2 ECTS: Exercises of the self-study course, completion and submission of the corresponding exercise form and the completion of further exercises for the course.

 

Lecturers:

Daniela Clauss:

• Subject librarian at the KIT library for history, education, philosophy and psychology as well as project coordinator of various e-learning projects.
• Main areas of work: Development and implementation of teaching and consulting services in the field of information literacy and writing skills as well as good scientific practice.

  

Alexandra Kwaśnicki:

• Librarian who is part of the information literacy team at KIT library; involved in the creation of online courses on topics such as good scientific practice, literature searching and writing skills as part of the helpBW project.
• Main focus: Scientific literature search & literature management.