This four week online workshop addresses the topic of creating an online tutorial. With changes in technology have come choices regarding the way librarians can deliver information to library patrons. Print guides to information resources have long been available and are still a viable and requested format. Given that many of the resources to which librarians now direct patrons are in electronic formats, it follows that instructional materials should imitate this too. Library instruction programs, the growth of distance education courses and innovations such as electronic reserves and digital reference services have created a need for explanatory and supplemental materials online.

Over the course of the four weeks we will look at the differences between traditional and web based learning experiences; figuring out how people learn best; ways to get the message across; and how you can tell if a tutorial has done its job.

Assignments accompany each module. The goal of the course is to get participants thinking about the ways in which information and skills can be taught in an online forum. By the end of the course participants should be able to take their own ideas and begin developing them for a web based learning experience.