1. Reflecting on Online
Instruction and
Learning
Best Practices and
Trends in Information
Literacy Tutorials
By Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS
June 12, 2007

2. 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

3. 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 Prog

4. Motivation
 Process of initiating, sustaining and
directing activity
– Intrinsic
– Extrinsic

5. 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

6. 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?

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

8. 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

9. Assessment Resources
 Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education
 You QuoteIt, You Note It, Acadia
University
 Rubrics for Collaboration

10. 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