Or kind of. After writing this post last winter, I started thinking about this idea as a way to connect with some of the classes I work with. Quick recap, I was looking at craft tutorials online and came up with some common characteristics they had, that our library tutorials don’t always have: They’re kind … Continue reading DIY tutorials, library style
An article that I wrote with my colleague Hannah Gascho Rempel just appeared in the new Communications in Information Literacy. It outlines some of our ideas about tutorial creation. For those who like continuity in academic writing, the pre-cursors to this article appeared in this space here and here. And these ideas formed the backbone of this … Continue reading Tutorials redux: the journey from blog post to article
So the thing about DIY tutorials is that even though the technology bar required to build them is pretty low, there are some back-end logistical issues that have to be navigated. When I decided I wanted to try these with some of my distance learning classes, I had to figure out how to create a … Continue reading tutorials a la carte
Not learning to do stuff from tutorials, though that’s where this started, but more thinking about tutorials by looking at tutorials. It has been a couple of weeks, but I finally had some time to take a look at the backlog in my “arts and crafts” folder in Google Reader and one of the things … Continue reading DIY research
RESEARCH Review articles Barbara A. Blummer & Olga Kritskaya (2009). “Best practices for creating an online tutorial: A literature review.” Journal of Web Librarianship, 3:3, 199-216. Link (paywall) Barbara Means, et al. (September 2010). Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies. U.S. Department of Education Office. Marta … Continue reading Online learning webcast. June 19, 2013.
Okay. So I am pretty sure that the actual article I am pointing to here (probably behind a pay wall – sorry) is not peer-reviewed. It is the editors’ introduction to a special issue of the journal Instructional Science. In this introduction they tell us that there are five empirical research reports and two commentary … Continue reading Peer Reviewed Monday – Expertise Reversal Theory
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