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Live Instruction for Distance Students: Development of Synchronous Online Workshops
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Kontos, Fotini; Henkel, Harold – Public Services Quarterly, 2008
This paper examines the Regent University Library's effort to reach online students by incorporating online library workshops using the Live Classroom software from Horizon Wimba. The paper explains the need for synchronous online library instruction which arose from the university's changing clientele and curriculum. It also analyzes participant…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Workshops, Library Instruction
College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants Program. Interim Performance Report. Higher Education Act, Title II-D.
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Benham, Frances – 1988
The objectives of this study were to develop comparative research data on two library instruction methods in order to improve student skills in collecting information, evaluating material critically, and communicating effectively through writing, as well as to evaluate a methodology for the assessment of library instruction. The traditional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Lexis-Nexis in an Academic Reference Environment: User Policies and Instruction Methods.
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Scales, B. Jane; Gilles, Mary M. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1995
Presents steps taken by a librarian task force at Washington State University in planning, implementing, and evaluating the addition of LEXIS-NEXIS workstations; user policies; and instruction methods in an academic reference environment. Figures and tables display: workstation information including usage statistics, an outline of the Lexis-Nexis…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials, Librarians
Pennsylvania State University Libraries. A Final Report from the Public Services Research Projects. The Effect of an Instruction Program on Online Catalog Users. One of a Series of Self-Studies and Research Projects.
Larson, Mary Ellen; Freivalds, Dace – 1985
This study on the role of instruction in encouraging the successful performance of the first-time online catalog user examined three relationships to evaluate the effects of an instructional program: the comparative effectiveness of four instructional methods in orienting users to the online catalog; the influence of an instruction program on user…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Higher Education, Intermode Differences
Training, and Retaining, Faculty for Online Courses: Challenges and Strategies.
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SchWeber, Claudine; Kelley, Kimberly B.; Orr, Gloria J. – 1998
This paper addresses the two core challenges facing institutions interested in delivering courses online: the increased need for faculty with interests and skills in this area, who can master the technology, take advantage of the new pedagogy mandated by teaching in a text-based environment, and maintain their subject area competence; and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Computer Uses in Education, Delivery Systems
Brick and Click Libraries: Proceedings of an Academic Library Symposium (Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, October 14, 2005)
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Ury, Connie Jo., Ed.; Baudino, Frank, Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
These proceedings document the fifth year of the "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium", held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. Thirty five peer-reviewed papers and abstracts, written by academic librarians, and presented at the symposium are included in this volume. Many of the entries have…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Reference Materials, Search Engines, Marketing