Learning Portal News: September 2022

What’s New

Health Sciences Research Modules

Finding Evidence-based Information for Health Sciences Students is a new set of modules found within the Research Hub. 
This hub will help nursing or health sciences students navigate the process of finding evidence-based health sciences information. It will help students plan their search, use appropriate databases to find information, evaluate information, and write an academic paper. It also includes a glossary of important terms. 
Faculty can import the content of these modules into their learning management system using LMS packages. 
There is also an ACRL Framework mapping tool to help library staff identify links between the information literacy modules and the six frames of the Framework.

Maamwi Hub

The Maamwi Hub, a collection of Indigenous resources, activities, and information for students and faculty, will be launching in October. Included in the Hub launch will be videos created by Tamara Gagnon, an Indigenous multimedia developer, who is Ojibwe, born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

What’s Updated

The Digital Skills Hub continues to be updated. Ten new videos were added to various modules of the Hub, including new videos in the Infographics module and in the Videos module. The Presentations module and Digital Storytelling module will soon be updated as well.

There is lots of great resources in the Math Hub. Ratios, Rates & Proportions was added as a new tutorial on the Math Hub. Solving Systems of Linear Equations was added to the Algebra tutorial.

Highlights

1. Academic Integrity and How to Cite are two of the most popular pages on The Learning Portal. The ‘building citations’ module has been updated to incorporate MLA 9.
    
2. The Math Hub is one of the most heavily used Hubs on The Learning Portal. Check out all of the math support available to your students, including how to overcome math anxiety, study strategies or access one of the eight tutorials available with quick self-assessments.  
    
3. Consider referring students to all of the resources of the Well Being Hub, including social, physical, emotional, and intellectual wellness supports.