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Designing Effective Library Tutorials

A Guide for Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles

By: Lori Mestre

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Designing Effective Library Tutorials

A Guide for Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles

By: Lori Mestre

Learning styles are highly relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials provides 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. The book presents studies, practical suggestions, and examples to assist librarians and faculty as they develop online programs for students from diverse learning styles. 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 examples. Geared for the practitioner working in online learning, the book summarizes current literature, and presents best practices for designing effective online tools for diverse learners, including suggestions for assessment of learning objects.This title is structured into twelve chapters, covering: The learning style debate: do we need to match up learning styles with presentation styles? Overview of learning style theories and learning style results from various studies; The intersection of culture and learning styles; The need for learning object development; Current practice: categories and features of library tutorials; Effective design of learning objects; Pedagogical considerations for tutorials; Interactivity options for tutorials; Assessment of learning objects; The value and process of usability studies; Marketing learning objects for broad visibility; and a section on resources. - Provides results from usability studies conducted with students that assess learning style and the resulting effectiveness of tutorials based on their preferred style - Compares approaches and software used by librarians and educators to create tutorials, along with examples of pitfalls and benefits of each for various learning styles - Incorporates examples of ways to use software while including learning objects to match learning style

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1780633254

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Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Janelle Sander,Lori S. Mestre,Eric Kurt

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Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Janelle Sander,Lori S. Mestre,Eric Kurt

Providing library users with actual pieces of technological equipment that they can borrow is a continuously expanding service at many libraries, especially as faculty and teachers require multimodal projects. For some libraries, loanable technology may include calculators, gaming devices, headphones, e-readers, laptops, and tablets. Increasingly though, there is also demand for all types of cameras, lighting, voice recorders, microphones, external storage devices, projectors, peripherals and converters, among hundreds of possibilities. Based on their successful program at a large research institution, the authors provide a practical manual, complete with examples, forms, and templates that cover all aspects of establishing and maintaining a loanable technology program. Going Beyond Books to Loaning Technologies: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides the nuts and bolts and the “behind-the scenes” details of developing a program and walks librarians and information technology professionals through even some of the complex decisions and processes, such as: needs assessment budget allocation selecting, cataloging, processing and storing equipment; circulation, billing, and troubleshooting training collaborating with others to offer consultation services marketing, and assessment Practical and easy to understand, here is a one-stop guide for anyone interested in lending technology to patrons.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Designing Effective Library Tutorials

A Guide for Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles

By: Lori Mestre

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Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Janelle Sander,Lori S. Mestre,Eric Kurt

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A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Janelle Sander,Lori S. Mestre,Eric Kurt

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Designing Effective Library Tutorials

Designing Effective Library Tutorials

Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

Designing Effective Library Tutorials

Designing Effective Library Tutorials

Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

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