The book aims to address the issues surrounding digital research from the point of view of the students themselves, addressing real-life critical stumbling blocks that can prevent them from engaging fully and productively with learning situations as they move into the world of higher education

Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information.