Librarians at the University of Alberta were tasked with creating interactive tutorials for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate students. Their team consisted of 5 librarians and 1 instructional designer and they completed 5 modules and 17 tutorials. They took the summer to build, the fall to pilot and the winter to revise. The pilot focused on Education and English students in core classes
Modules were scaffolded, yet could stand alone allowing the student to start anywhere in the process.
They wrote the script as a team utilizing Google docs, complete with a table that described objectives, outcomes, etc. They felt that it was important to do this work as a team so that all of the tutorials would have a similar voice while also minimizing overlap.
Considerations:
- share-ability
- creative commons
- simple aesthetic
- template that would age well
- minimal use of branding to promote sharing
- make use of time wisely - long meetings, share documents on a common screen
- consistencies of video format, etc.
- plan - time and deadlines
- time - technical issues, will take longer than you think (hey, where have I heard this before?)
- share - share groundwork so that no one person owns the material. That way if someone leaves the project, someone else can pick up where they left off
- pilot - start small
www.library.ualberta.ca/tutorials
The files themselves include an audio transcript as well as activities to engage students (drag and drop, submit or check for understanding). They used interdisciplinary examples so that the videos would not age quickly. Software was Articulate Storyline. The tutorials are amazing. Simple design. I am ready to copy them all right now!
* Author's Note: seeing librarians from the University of Alberta is always such a treat. Their ideas are innovative, their approach is thorough and thoughtful and they always seems to have excellent outcomes.
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