Designing Effective Library Tutorials

This book presents studies, practical suggestions and examples that provide information and strategies to assist librarians and faculty as they develop online instruction, tutorials, and learning objects for students from diverse learning styles. Geared for the everyday practitioner working in the area of online learning, the book provides a summary of the current literature covering the relevance of learning styles for students in the online environment, and presents best practices for designing effective online tools for diverse learners, including suggestions for assessment of online learning. 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 modalities. There is little research into how well learning objects align with the needs of users. This book will add to the picture by providing 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.