Type
Presentation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/xy02-w406
Session Description
With the proliferation of online and hybrid programs, increasing numbers of librarians have created research tutorials to share with students and faculty, allowing them to give tough concepts a personal touch. However, many libraries use a decentralized approach to tutorial creation that makes ensuring accessibility, maintenance and strategic approaches difficult.
Join us to talk through what our team did to increase the quality and accessibility of existing tutorials, while still providing room for autonomy and creativity from individual content creators.
One member of the team will discuss how accessibility checks and best practices were incorporated into the tutorial creation, review, and publication processes and explain the tools and resources provided to content creators to aid them in making more accessible learning objects.
Another team member will describe how a tutorial review process was created to ensure that existing tutorials receive a periodic refresh and how that process is managed among an ever-changing group of librarians. Lessons learned from the first tutorial review cycle will be shared, along with changes to the process for the current review cycle.
The final team member will describe the documentation that was created to communicate processes, checkpoints, and creation pathways to ensure that content creators had the resources and support they needed to create tutorials independently if they wished.
Takeaways: By the end of this session attendees will be able to:
Articulate the common accessibility barriers in tutorials and approaches to eliminate them
Describe a collaborative approach to tutorial maintenance and creation
Identify documentation and personnel needs for managing a collaborative tutorial maintenance process
Type of Library
University Library
Creating (and Updating) Learning Objects with Intention: Developing a Strategic Process for Tutorial Creation and Management
With the proliferation of online and hybrid programs, increasing numbers of librarians have created research tutorials to share with students and faculty, allowing them to give tough concepts a personal touch. However, many libraries use a decentralized approach to tutorial creation that makes ensuring accessibility, maintenance and strategic approaches difficult.
Join us to talk through what our team did to increase the quality and accessibility of existing tutorials, while still providing room for autonomy and creativity from individual content creators.
One member of the team will discuss how accessibility checks and best practices were incorporated into the tutorial creation, review, and publication processes and explain the tools and resources provided to content creators to aid them in making more accessible learning objects.
Another team member will describe how a tutorial review process was created to ensure that existing tutorials receive a periodic refresh and how that process is managed among an ever-changing group of librarians. Lessons learned from the first tutorial review cycle will be shared, along with changes to the process for the current review cycle.
The final team member will describe the documentation that was created to communicate processes, checkpoints, and creation pathways to ensure that content creators had the resources and support they needed to create tutorials independently if they wished.
Takeaways: By the end of this session attendees will be able to:
Articulate the common accessibility barriers in tutorials and approaches to eliminate them
Describe a collaborative approach to tutorial maintenance and creation
Identify documentation and personnel needs for managing a collaborative tutorial maintenance process
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