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Best Practices and Trends in Information

Literacy TutorialsBy Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS

June 12, 2007

How do we know what to teach? How do we teach it?

Best Practices for meaningful, innovative and effective tutorials.– Design/Interactivity– Motivation– Learning Styles – Assessment

Design/Interactivity

Design– Shorter and modular– Discrete events--Point of Need– Use of Multimedia-Flash and Captivate

Interactivity– Assessment and Gaming Concepts– Marketing library and services embedded– University of Minnesota Full Text Wizard– CLUE, Library & Information Literacy/Instruction Pr

ogram at UW-Madison

Motivation

Process of initiating, sustaining and directing activity– Intrinsic– Extrinsic

ARCS Model of Motivation

ARCS Model (Keller, J.M. 1987)

Attention-get and keep

Relevance-using assignments

Confidence-appropriate expectancy

Satisfaction-applies both intrinsic and extrinsic

Online Tutorials???

Is there a place for online tutorials to assist with tasks that students want point of need assistance?

What motivation techniques can be used to enhance learning?

Learning styles

Auditory- Hearing for attention Reading writing-processing text Kinesthetic-Active in Learning Process Visual-Seeing Observing CINAHL Tutorial

Assessment

Does the learning tool do its job?– Advantage--Instant feedback with corrections– Disadvantage-May not test higher order skills

Online assessment techniques– Immediate Feedback– Adapts to different learning styles

Assessment Resources

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

You QuoteIt, You Note It, Acadia University

Rubrics for Collaboration

Resources

Terry Bennet, Melissa Prescott, Jennifer Sharkey Panelists

ARCL 13th National Conference

March 29-April 1, 2007• PRIMO http://www.ala.org/CFApps/Primo/public/search.cfm

– Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database (Formerly the Internet Education Project)

• Keller, J. M. (1987) Strategies for stimulating the motivation to learn. Performance and Instruction, 26(8) 1-7

• Clark, R. C. & R. E. Mayer (2003) E-Learning and the science of instruction:proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. 1st Ed. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer