Synopses & Reviews
Keeping the User in Mind provides a practical down-to-earth look at instructional design and its uses in the academic library. Focus is given to teaching and measuring information literacy skills, and chapters review the history of the field, providing an overview of some relevant technological innovations that might be a part of any librarys instructional design mosaic. This book reviews instructional design and its uses in the academic library, with a particular look at teaching and measuring information literacy skills.
Synopsis
This title provides a down-to-earth look at instructional design and its uses in the academic library, with a particular look at teaching and measuring information literacy skills.
About the Author
Valeda Dent is Dean of University Libraries at Long Island University, New York.
Table of Contents
A brief history of instructional design How we learn: fundamental learning theory and the connection to instructional design The many faces of instructional design: highlighting the diversity of instructional design models Instructional design and higher education In the mix: Instructional design and the instructional mashup Closing the gap between instructional strategies and instructional design The instructional design process in action: Highlights from Kognito Interactive Administrative and professional challenges to the use of instructional design in the academic library Keeping the user in mind: Using design thinking to connect libraries and instructional design A glimpse of the future: The semantic web and library instructional design