Science Information

Literacy Tutorials and

Pedagogy

Loreena Sandalwooda.k.a. Eleni Zazani

Infolit ischool, Wed 7th Sep 2011

Today we discuss:Science Information Literacy Tutorials and

Pedagogy. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, North America, 6, jun.

2011. Available at: <

http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9480/8128

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This article examines ...

31 tutorials examined

Science Tutorials

Pedagogical Elements

ACRL IL

Standards

ALA/ACRL/STS (Science &

Technology Section) Task Force on IL for

Science & Technology

ACRL Standards addressed:

Source: LI, P.. Science Information Literacy Tutorials and Pedagogy. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, North America, 6, jun. 2011. Available at: <http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9480/8128>. Date accessed: 04 Sep. 2011.

Good Pedagogical Elements

Source: LI, P.. Science Information Literacy Tutorials and Pedagogy. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, North America, 6, jun. 2011. Available at: <http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9480/8128>. Date accessed: 04 Sep. 2011.

1. Pedagogical Elements analysed •Ta

ble of contents

•Menus

•Internal navigation tools (e.g. Arrows, buttons, etc)

Options for users to select their own paths through information

•Logical progression of the tutorial

•Page design elements (e.g. arrows, highlighting, small icons, variety of font sizes, etc.)

Clearly presented Information

•Quizzes at the end of tutorial

•Quizzes that require use of a separate browser

•Integrated self-assessment questions

Active learning Elements

•Request feedback

Critical thinking

Best tutorial examined was...

http://www.lib.uci.edu/how/tutorials/science_info_tutorial/tutorial.html

Some conclusions

• Tutorials examined focus on the I, II, III STS standards:

• More work needs to be done re IV & V Standards (ethical, legal issues, lifelong learning process)

• Designers have seen the importance of good pedagogy

• The amount of Active Learning elements incorporated is not satisfactory

Some conclusions...(2)

Do online tutorials facilitate deep learning

• A challenging point:

Further Reading on UK online IL:

Information Literacy Weblog: Online information literacy http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/online-information-literacy.html?spref=tw

The following slides incorporate the

participants input from the discussion anonymously

• Do you include any other pedagogical elements in your online tutorials?

• Would you consider the usage of Accessibility elements good pedagogical practice?

• Did you watch any tutorial recently that you loved and might want to share with us?

Discussion...

Participants felt that the “pedagogic” analysis wasn’t particularly strong, meaning that the elements examined were rather limited.On the other hand, Sundin, O. (2008)*proposes a different approach to analysing tutorials, where he looks more at the underlying pedagogic approach and learning goals involved.

Critique – missing elements

*See reference in the “More reading” slides at the end

Critique – missing elements

It was thought it would have been very informative if the article had followed a systematic review for each tutorial, including a summary about how each tutorial met each criterion

The article focused entirely on science-related tutorials. It was thought however that it missed to examine Instructional strategies which are combined with "Collections of tutorials that cover diverse topics or have multiple instructional purposes“ perhaps in this case tutorials did not qualify as being primarily "science" tutorials if they had many diverse topics

Critique – missing elements

Critique – missing elements

Participants also felt that the student perspective was missing from this analysis. A good example-tutorial which incorporates interactive learning elements is LILO

Learning Information Literacy Online

Student Interaction in LILOStudents are presented with sample model answers, but their own answers are assignment and research topic specific, so their responses are original. They compare their responses to the model-answers and fill out a rubric indicating where they think their skill lies on the rubric scale. The same rubrics can be used for self-assessment by the instructor or librarian as well.

http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo

LILO explained...

...in a short video

It was also added to the PRIMO database as one of the best tutorials.LILO is linked to coursework and hence is intrinsically motivatingLILO was based on LOBO model

LILO on PRIMO

Title: Learning Information Literacy Online

(LILO). Author: University of Hawaii

Libraries Information Literacy Committee

URL: http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo/

Description: LILO teaches fundamental

information literacy concepts as it guides

students through the research process.

Category: Catalog Tutorial, Database

Tutorial, Information Literacy, Library

Pedagogy, Research Strategy

Audience: Adult Learners, Distance

Learners, Undergraduates, Faculty, First

Year

Keyword: information literacy, evaluation,

synthesis, plagiarism, research strategy,

web 2.0

Date: 2008 spring

Source: Primo Database: http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm

Best Tutorial

What PRIMO is?

Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

• evaluates nominated examples of good online-instruction.

• The committee solicits 2/year for nominations.

• Then, the committee reviews each viable nomination according to the criteria.

• Those that meet the criteria best are added to the database (and sometimes profiled in a "Site of the Month" interview)

The PRIMO committee

Check the site of the Month! PRIMO Selection Criteria

The PRIMO wiki page lists Standards addressed by the various tutorials

Visit the Wiki page

LOBO -Library Online Basic Orientation

LOBO http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo/

PRIMO tutorialMapped to ACRL standards with instruction in modules Helps students make progress in their researchIt has the usual modules, but what is new is no “canned” answers and it is really a productivity tutorial Lobo was a PRIMO Site of the Month tutorial

Students love the guidance in LILO or LOBO... there is an assignment calculator that tells them when each step should start and ideally finishBUT it takes a ton of work to get classroom instructors to follow through.

More about LOBO

“Active learning” is not a criterion in PRIMOTutorials with “canned” answers, e.g. testing tutorials, have limited interactivityLibrarians are more used to doing demonstrations - thus, easy to incorporate Standard 2, into the tutorials (Acquiring Information effectively & efficiently)Many tutorials are paper handouts that have been transformed into web pages ....OOPS

Discussion points...

The issue of tutorials being in favour of certain aspects of IL has come up in other studies It is always a challenge to meet the ethical use standard, even in face-to-face IL instruction Good interactivity in online tutorials might boost student engagement with the learning materials, rather than just sitting and reading the screenlibrary tutorials might be seen as irrelevant because the implications/relations to course work are not clear/understood

Some more discussion points...

Especially younger college students don't see the tutorial’s relevance unless its subject is directly connected to what they studyIf the tutorial is a required element of a course it is also motivating Instructors must be on board throughout the research process if online tutorials are used for the module“Interactive" or "active" doesn't necessarily mean that people are learning........ OOPS!

Some more discussion points...

A suite of complementary tutorials has been used as an instructional strategy in many instances with the “how to...” tutorials e.g. challenging students to be critical thinkers, etc.

Some more discussion points...

Mark is a faculty member in the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. He recently posted on the lis-infoliteracy discussion list to say that he had been evaluating "e-learning sites for information literacy". "70 Higher Education (HE) sites and 7 from the workplace, were identified and screened, 30 were evaluated in-depth" Read more in Sheila Webber’s blogA list of his top-ranked tutorials are also listed below

Mark Hepworth’s Research

Accessibility

Accessibility, without doubt, is an important element that it needs to be considered while creating online tutorials

Celebrate one year Journal club meetings

• It was a great honour for me to lead such a lively discussion on the anniversary of the first year of monthly Journal club meetings!

• We marked the occasion with colourful fireworks at the end!

Journal club discussions are taking place in Infolit iSchool in Second Life, the virtual world, hosted by the Centre for Information Literacy Research at the University of Sheffield.Future events are announced in Sheila Webber’s Information Literacy weblog and on the infolit ischool calendar Follow Sheila’s post to see some snippets of the first Journal Club discussion led by the conveyor of the Journal Club, Pancha Enzyme (a.k.a. Marshall Dozier)

More about the Journal Club Meetings

Bowles-Terry, M., Hensley, M.K. & Hinchliffe, L.J., (2010). Best Practices for Online Video Tutorials in Academic Libraries: A Study of Student Preferences and Understanding. Communications in Information Literacy, 4(1), p.17-28. Available at: http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=viewFile&path[]=Vol4-2010AR1&path[]=112 . [Date accessed 17 February 2012]. Dewald, Nancy. (1999a). “Transporting Good Library Instruction Practices into the Web Environment: An Analysis of Online Tutorials.” Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1999a 25(1), 26-32. Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley, et. al. (2006). If you build it, will they learn? Assessing online information literacy tutorials. College and Research Libraries. Link to article http://crl.acrl.org/content/67/5/429.full.pdf+html

More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*

The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were recommended by the participants during the meeting

Oakleaf, Megan. (2008). "Planning, Building, and Assessing an Online Information Literacy Tutorial: The LOBO Experience." In Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo, eds. available at http://meganoakleaf.info/LOBO%20Digital%20Age.pdf Oakleaf, Megan. (2009) "The Information Literacy Instruction. Assessment Cycle: A Guide for Increasing Student Learning and Improving Librarian Instructional Skills." Journal of Documentation 65(4)Roberts, Gary. (2003)“The Yin and Yang of Integrating TILT with Blackboard.” Computers in Libraries, vol. 23(8), p. 10-56.Sharon Yang, (2009) "Information literacy online tutorials: An introduction to rationale and technological tools in tutorial creation", Electronic Library, The, Vol. 27(4), pp.684 – 693

More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*

The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were recommended by the participants during the meeting

Sullivan, Patrick. (2004). Developing Freshman-Level Tutorials to Promote Information Literacy. Chap. 3 in Ilene F. Rockman and Associates, Eds., Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum: Practical Models for Transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, pp. 71-91.Sundin, O. (2008). Negotiations on information seeking expertise: a study of web-based tutorials for information literacy. Journal of documentation, �64(1), 24-44. Tancheva, K., (2003). Online Tutorials for Library Instruction: An Ongoing Project Under Constant Revision. ACRL Eleventh National Conference Learning to Make a Difference. Available at: http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/pdf/tancheva.PDF [Date accessed 17 February 2012].

More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*

The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were recommended by the participants during the meeting

Mark Hepworth’s list of top-ranked Tutorials:http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/ University of Sydney, Australia http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Divisions/Academic/Library/information-skills/infoskills/index.html University of Newcastle, Australia University of Leicester, United Kingdom (moved their pages to a new content management system and all the tutorials are being remade to reflect the changes to their underlying systems. Nevertheless, there are various tutorials etc. linked from this page http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/help http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/ University of Leeds, United Kingdom https://pilot.library.qut.edu.au/index.jsp Queensland University of Technology, Australia http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/ Open University, United Kingdom

More exploring...... Sample Tutorials

Towards the end of the discussion Three more tutorials were mentioned:“Search and Write”: http://sokogskriv.no/english/

To read more the “Search and Write” tutorial and underlying pedagogies you may want to follow the Journal club discussion - presentation on http://www.slideshare.net/e_zazani/the-didacticrelationmodeldiscussion The discussion is based on Skagen, T.,Torras, M., Kavli, S., Mikki, S., Hafstad, S., & Hunskår, I. (2009). Pedagogical Considerations in Developing an Online Tutorial in Information Literacy. Communications in Information Literacy, 2(2). Available at http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/article/view/Fall2008AR2/74

The misadventures of Carlos and his pal Eddie (scripted personas)"Bruin Success with Less Stress" http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/ ANTS: Animated Tutorial Sharing Project (open source sharing of IL tutorials) http://ants.wetpaint.com/

More exploring...... Sample Tutorials

Thank you for coming along and for contributing to the discussion with so

many ideas!Eleni Zazani, Learning Support Adviser at Birkbeck College

Library, I am tweeting as @EleniZazani