A case study for teaching information literacy skills
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A case study for teaching information literacy skills
BACKGROUND The Internet has changed contemporary workplace skills, resulting in a need for proficiency with specific digital, online and web-based technologies within the fields of medicine, dentistry and public health. Although younger students, generally under 30 years of age, may appear inherently comfortable with the use of technology-intensive environments and digital or online search meth...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Education
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-9-7