Register to work -at-your-own-pace anytimeWeb-based (Moodle) course - 5* CE from the MLA
Web-based Learning Activities:
In this hands-on course you will review rigorous evaluation criteria for health and medical information as well as how and why to evaluate health and medical information on the Web, including consumer health, complementary and alternative medical, and information for healthcare professionals.
Participants will learn to read and analyse health and medical related Web sites to determine the authority and/or credibility of such sites. Participants will learn how to identify fraudulent sites and sites with a credibility deficit using review sites as well as evaluation criteria. Participants will also be able to teach patrons/end-users how to make good information choices from those available on the Web as well as to select high quality sites for inclusion in e-library collections and for reference work. We will also cover researching licensing status and quality ratings of healthcare professionals and organizations.
Librarians, health care professionals, health literacy advocates, and other information specialists who work with healthcare consumers and/or healthcare professionals.
Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser, e.g.,Mozilla/Firefox, or Internet Explorer -- current versions are best.
Register anytime to work-at-your-own-pace with a Web teacher through e-mail, chat and Moodle. Free - 5* CE from the Medical Library Association.
*This is the first topic of Health and Medical Reference on the Web for Healthcare Consumers - 15 CE
Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet &Web Training.She has been a Web Teacher and Consultant for nearly 20 years. She designs and teaches Web-based and in-person courses for organizations and individuals including UIUC GSLIS LEEP, ACR, MLA, NEO-RLS, NTRLS, SEFLIN, WNYRLC, and others. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based and in-person MLA Approved CE Courses since 2001
Her most recent book is The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, 2nd Edition (2009) Neal-Schuman Publishers. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-Mail Environments Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) was published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007).
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002. How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.
Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.
Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.
Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.