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Moran, Carrie; Mulvihill, Rachel – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2017
The UCF Libraries are continually developing new forms of library instruction to meet the needs of a growing student body with the same number of librarians. These efforts attempt to find the balance between impersonal online tutorials and time-intensive embedded librarianship. The pros and cons of each model employed at our growing university are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Sustainability
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Gluga, Richard; Kay, Judy; Lister, Raymond; Kleitman, Simon; Kleitman, Sabina – Computer Science Education, 2013
To design an effective computer science curriculum, educators require a systematic method of classifying the difficulty level of learning activities and assessment tasks. This is important for curriculum design and implementation and for communication between educators. Different educators must be able to use the method consistently, so that…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Test Items
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Somoza-Fernandez, Marta; Abadal, Ernest – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009
This paper aims to analyse the characteristics of tutorials created by academic libraries. It evaluates a sample of 180 tutorials by applying thirty basic indicators referring to general characteristics, content, teaching methodology, usability and technology. The general conclusion is that most of the tutorials are at an early stage of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Tutorial Programs, Web Based Instruction
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McRae, Christopher; Karuso, Peter; Liu, Fei – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
The Web is now a standard tool for information access and dissemination in higher education. The prospect of Web-based, simulated learning platforms and technologies, however, remains underexplored. We have developed a Web-based tutorial program (ChemVoyage) for a third-year organic chemistry class on the topic of pericyclic reactions to…
Descriptors: Internet, Feedback (Response), Organic Chemistry, Web Based Instruction
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Martin, Janet; Birks, Jane; Hunt, Fiona – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Librarians from Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) report on an empirical evaluation of the relevance and value of Infoasis (http://www.zu.ac.ae/infoasis), a Web-based information literacy tutorial developed and tailored to the Arab student population of the Emirates. After the successful implementation of this project, questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Tutorial Programs
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Blummer, Barbara – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2007
In the digital era online tutorials remain especially popular for providing information literacy instruction to undergraduates. This paper provides three approaches for assessing learning from a web-based tutorial. First, a general assessment focuses on patron surveys, usage statistics, and interlibrary loan requests for library-owned materials to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Tutorial Programs, Library Instruction