Creating Online Tutorials: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Today's students rely heavily on electronic resources, and libraries must be prepared to guide them to use library resources when and where they are needed. Creating Online Tutorials: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition, will help librarians create effective online tutorials that meet the needs of their users. The book covers assessing user needs, choosing the right technology, selecting and organizing instructional content, planning tutorial design elements, integrating assessment, maintaining and updating tutorials, and finding online tutorial resources.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Today's students rely heavily on electronic resources, expecting to be able to access library resources from any location and at any time of the day. Online education is ubiquitous from K-12 through graduate-level coursework and is increasingly used in on-the-job training. Libraries must be prepared to guide learners to use library resources when and where they are needed. Thoughtfully designed online tutorials can be the library's answer to providing this point-of-need instruction that learners have come to expect.

When librarians lack the technical expertise needed to create online tutorials, Creating Online Tutorials: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition will help guide them through the basics of designing and producing an online tutorial. Using practical examples, the book leads librarians through the process of creating an online tutorial from start to finish and provides tips and strategies that will be useful to librarians with more experience in designing online tutorials.

This detailed roadmap for designing and producing online tutorials covers:

Is a tutorial the right solution?

Assessing diverse user needs

Choosing the right technology

Selecting and organizing instructional content

Planning tutorial design elements

Integrating assessment into tutorial design

Maintaining and updating tutorials

Finding online tutorial resources

After reading this book, new tutorial developers will have a practical, adaptable blueprint that enables them to confidently address the creation of their first online tutorials, and experienced developers will learn efficient techniques to create and enhance future tutorials that are attractive, effective teaching tools.

Weight: 602g
Dimension: 216 x 280 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538177877
Edition number: Second Edition