This Virtual Training Suite contains sets of tutorials to help students develop their online research skills. Although the primary audience is university students in the UK, students doing research projects for AP courses in the US will also find them useful.
The tutorials are organized by subject area, covering about 60 subjects. Each tutorial includes a Welcome intro, a Tour of sites useful for research in a particular subject, a Discover module of relevant search engines, a Judge module to guide students through determining authoritativeness and truthfulness of sources, and a Success module with examples.
For US students in AP courses, some useful tutorials include American Studies, Allied Health, Biodiversity, Chemistry, Classics, Earth Science, Economics, English, Environment, Physics, Plant sciences, and Psychology.
These tutorials were written and reviewed by professors and librarians from universities across the UK. Each one takes around an hour to complete. Of particular use for AP students is the Tour of sites module for each subject. It suggests many European resources students may have otherwise overlooked.