Practical Academic Library Instruction: Learner-Centered Techniques, by Jo Angela Oehrli

Academic Library Instruction Using the WWW

Collaborative design: a learner-centered library planning approach

Purpose – Information commons were introduced into libraries in the early 1990s. Now universities are building library learning commons and campus learning spaces. This paper sets out to present a participatory library (re)design approach for collaborative planning “for and with” faculty teachers, student learners, and campus stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – Collaborative design (co-...

Brawling in the Library: Gaming Programs for Impactful Outreach and Instruction at an Academic Library

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 802–813. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instr...

user-Centered digital library

The purpose of this study was to find out whether users should be involved in the design stage of a Digital Library (DL). Hence an experiment has been undertaken to find out the level of user satisfaction with a user-centred DL (UDL) compared to a non-user-centred DL (NDL). In this experiment, the UDL prototype has been compared with the NDL prototype. The two prototypes were then evaluated by ...

Learner-centered Technical Review in Programming Courses

In this paper, our experience in developing learner-centered technical review techniques in programming courses is described. To better serve educational purposes, our learner-centered technical reviews define review artifact, review outcomes, expectation and format, etc according to the levels of programming course. Our learner-centered technical reviews have been proven to be very effective i...