Modern user instruction teaching users new media

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Modern user instruction teaching users new
media

• Klaipeda 25th 26th May 2005
• Anne-Marie Pettersson
• anne-marie.pettersson_at_bth.se

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Information literacy

• assess the need for information
• identify what information is needed
• locate information
• evaluate information
• use information in solving problems

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The PBL Learning Process

• introductory lecture
• encounter a real world problem
• solve the problem with information already
  possessed
• identify what needs to be learned
• teacher educational coach (tutor)who becomes
  less active
• small learner groups

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User instruction steps
1st semester Library Introduction
1st semester Bibliographial Databases Search
strategies
Any time Book a librarian
6th semester Thesis writing Individual
instructions
1st semester ELIN_at_Blekinge Full text journals
3rd semester Bibliographical databases CINAHL,
Medline
5th semester Search workshops
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Lessons learned

• Time consuming
• Timing
• Motivation
• Variation
• Rehearsal
• Difficulties
• New search behaviours

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Thanks for your attention!
anne-marie.pettersson_at_bth.se