This shows you how to search resources in 'Our resources'.

1. Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

2. Quick Search
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0 Quick Search searches across
all fields and will return a
broad range of resources.
0 You may enter individual
words*.
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants
* Boolean search and phrase search (enclosed phrase
with quotation marks) are not supported.
* There’s a list of ‘stopwords1’, search terms that the
search engine will omit.
* Any words with fewer than 4 characters are not
searchable.
1List of stopwords: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html

3. Example 1
(Single word)
It returns
items that
‘culture’
appears in any
of the fields.
• Results
Culture
• Search word
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Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

4. Example 2
(Multiple words)
It returns items that
‘cultural’ and
‘leadership’ appear in
any of the fields.
*It’s not necessary that both
words appear together in the
one field.
• Results
Cultural
leadership
• Search word
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Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

5. Example 3
(Multiple words containing stopwords)
It returns items that
‘leadership and ‘Asia’
appear in any of the
fields.
*It’s not necessary that both
words appear together in the
one field.
• Results
Leadership
in Asia
• Search word
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Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

6. Advanced Search
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You may perform a search
0 within a specific course
0 within a specific media type
0 within a specific tag
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

7. Advanced Search
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0 Enter individual words.
0 Then narrow down your
search by selecting ‘course’
and/or ‘media type’ from
the drop-down menu.
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

8. Advanced Search
(Search with Tag)
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0 You will need to enter the
full name of a tag1.
0 It can only search one tag at
a time.
1Full name of Tags can be found in ‘view
all tags’ or ‘browse by tag’ pages
http://leaderlearningasia.net/collections/items/tags
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants

9. Examples
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It returns
no results.
*we don’t have
a tag named
‘assessment’.
.
•Results
Assessment
•Search by tag
It returns 1
item.
*we have 1 item
tagged with
‘Performance
assessment’.
• Results
Performance
assessment
• Search by tag
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants
Unsuccessful search Successful search

10. Search Results
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0 Filter on the top of the
search result page does not
filter results.
(We are working on fixing this bug.)
Advancing Online Learning: Aligning Pedagogy, Course Design and ICT
Project funded by the Teaching Development Grants