DEVELOPING A DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON USING THE INTERNET FOR RESEARCH

摘要

Mercy College offers undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology entirely online over the Internet. Library service to these students has been non-existent so far. Most of the students live in the United States and use their neighborhood public and academic libraries. In the Fall of 1999, a small group of students living and working in Israel registered for these online degree programs. It was important to provide research assistance and instruction in using Mercy College Libraries' full-text databases and finding quality information resources on the Internet to support the courses for which these students were registered. The course "Using Internet for Research" was developed to meet these needs. This presentation describes the development and delivery of this course, and the successes and challenges faced by the instructor teaching the course, the students taking the course, and administrative staff. Efforts made towards overcoming these challenges are also discussed.