This presentation followed by discussion was delivered on wed Wed 7th Sep 2011, during the Journal Club meeting at the infolit iSchool, the virtual space of the University of Sheffield in the UK

1. Loreena Sandalwood
a.k.a. Eleni Zazani
Infolit ischool,
Wed 7th Sep 2011
Science
Information
Literacy
Tutorials and
Pedagogy

2. 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>

3. This article examines ...
ALA/ACRL/STS
(Science & Technology
ACRL IL
Standards Section) Task Force on
IL for Science &
Technology
Pedagogical
Elements
Science
Tutorials 31 tutorials
examined

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 1. Pedagogical Elements analysed
Options for users to • Table of contents
select their own paths • Menus
through information • Internal navigation tools (e.g. Arrows, buttons, etc)
• Logical progression of the tutorial
Clearly presented
• Page design elements (e.g. arrows, highlighting, small
Information icons, variety of font sizes, etc.)
• Quizzes at the end of tutorial
Active learning Elements • Quizzes that require use of a separate browser
• Integrated self-assessment questions
Critical thinking • Request feedback

7. Best tutorial examined was...
http://www.lib.uci.edu/how/tutorials/science_info_tutorial/tutorial.html

8. 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

9. Some conclusions...(2)
• A challenging point:
Do online tutorials
facilitate deep
learning
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

10. The following slides
incorporate the
participants input from
the discussion
anonymously

11. Discussion...
• 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?

12. Critique – missing elements
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.
*See reference in the “More reading” slides at the end

13. 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

14. Critique – missing elements
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

15. 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

16. Student Interaction in LILO
Students are presented with
http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo 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.

17. 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 motivating
• LILO was based on LOBO model

18. LILO on PRIMO
Source: Primo Database:
http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/
public/search.cfm
Best
Tutorial

19. What PRIMO is?
Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

20. The PRIMO committee
• 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)
Check the site of the Month!
PRIMO Selection Criteria

21. The PRIMO wiki page lists Standards
addressed by the various tutorials
Visit the Wiki page

22. LOBO -Library Online Basic
Orientation
LOBO http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo/
PRIMO tutorial
Mapped to ACRL standards
with instruction in modules
Helps students make progress
in their research
It 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

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

24. Discussion points...
“Active learning” is not a
criterion in PRIMO
Tutorials with “canned”
answers, e.g. testing tutorials,
have limited interactivity
Librarians 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

25. Some more 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 screen
library tutorials might be seen
as irrelevant because the
implications/relations to course
work are not clear/understood

26. Some more discussion points...
Especially younger college
students don't see the tutorial’s
relevance unless its subject is
directly connected to what they
study
If 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!

27. 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.

28. Mark Hepworth’s Research
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 blog
A list of his top-ranked tutorials are
also listed below

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

30. 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!

31. More about the Journal Club
Meetings
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)

32. More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*
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
The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were
recommended by the participants during the meeting

33. More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*
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.p
df
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
The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were
recommended by the participants during the meeting

34. More Reading.. Articles on Tutorials*
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/cont
ent/conferences/pdf/tancheva.PDF [Date accessed
17 February 2012].
The list is only a sample out of the wealth of articles available. These were
recommended by the participants during the meeting

35. More exploring...... Sample Tutorials
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/Divisio
ns/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

36. 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/vie
w/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/

37. 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