Selected Scholarly Journals
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ASSIGNMENT FOR LDT ORIENTATION STUDENTS
Now that you have reviewed how to use the USD Copley Library, begin researching a learning design technology topic that you are interested in. Here are some ideas to get you started, but feel free to choose a different topic you'd like to explore:
- Mobile Learning in Education or Training
- Designing eLearning/E-Learning for Education or Training
- Virtual or Augmented Reality in Education or Training
- Self-Directed Learning in Education or Training
Write a brief paper (approx 300 words) that describes how your knowledge or experience on the topic relates to the articles you found. If you don't have prior knowledge or experience on the topic, describe how you think the topic would be applied in a practical context and what you learned from your research.
Most of the assignments in your program will be graded using a rubric. A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of your work. Be sure to review the rubric before you submit any assignment to ensure you are meeting the assignment requirements.
Recommended Databases
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Education Source This link opens in a new windowEducation Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.
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ERIC This link opens in a new windowERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowincludes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
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Sage Premier Journals This link opens in a new windowThe Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences
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Taylor & Francis This link opens in a new windowAccess to over 4,100,000 articles from Routledge and Taylor & Francis. Featured disciplines include Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations & Area Studies; and Sociology & Related Disciplines.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIncludes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It provides cited reference searching, the unique ISI search and retrieval feature that lets users track the literature forward and backward.
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Wiley InterScience This link opens in a new windowIncludes access to over 250 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences.