Designing Effective Library Tutorials

Learning styles are relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials presents studies, practical suggestions and examples to assist librarians and faculty as they develop online instruction, tutorials and learning objects, for students from diverse learning styl [...]
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Learning styles are relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials presents studies, practical suggestions and examples to assist librarians and faculty as they develop online instruction, tutorials and learning objects, for students from diverse learning styles. Geared for the practitioner working in online learning, the book provides a summary of the current literature covering the relevance of learning styles for students in the online environment, and presents best practices for designing effective online tools for diverse learners, including suggestions for assessment of online learning. Research on learning style preferences in the online environment emphasizes the need to provide a variety of methods that include text, aural, visual, and kinesthetic modalities. There is little research into how well learning objects align with the needs of users. This book will add to the picture by providing examples of, and steps for, how to create tutorials that match learning styles, based on usability studies of students from various cultural groups and styles of learning.This title is structured into twelve chapters, covering: the learning styles debate; an overview of learning style theories and learning style results; the intersection of culture and learning styles; the need for learning object development; present practice in library tutorials; effective design of learning objects; pedagogical considerations for instruction tutorials; interactivity options for tutorials; assessment of learning objects; usability studies; and resources.