This course will help students learn the foundations of how to successfully start their research process. Research Skills was developed based on research best-practices that many students miss in their high school and undergraduate education. The self-paced course allows students to learn the steps from developing a topic to creating an annotated bibliography at their own speed. Assigning this foundational course empowers instructors to focus on field-related content while students learn the vital research skills they need.  

Help to Address Common Challenges 

The Research Skills course will help address common classroom challenges when integrated into your classroom:  

• Student’s research papers seem rushed and poorly thought out 

• Some arguments in their papers seem disconnected or not properly supported 

• Students obtaining mediocre or minimal scholarly articles 

• Students struggle from getting from topic to paper  

• Students not utilizing JHU scholarly resources  

How to assign the course so my students get the most out of it?  

Students will see the biggest impact if they are asked to complete the Research Skills activities as part of a graded assignment in their for-credit coursework. The course has a series of activities, worksheets, and checks for understanding. This ensures that students are not only understanding the information but are able to master the skill through doing. 

Select Which Course is Best for Your Students 

• Research Skills - https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/libraries/courses/libraries-research-skills 

• Research Skills for Museum & Heritage Studies - https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/libraries/courses/libraries-research-skills-museum-studies 

Copy and paste enrollment text into Canvas

Feel free to edit all the text we have provided it as a jumping-off point for what you might add to your classroom. Once you are ready, you would create an “Assignment” in your course and paste in the text. All the details for the course, including boiler plate text can be found on this document.