Instructional Design Essentials: A Practical Guide for Librarians

by Sean Cordes

Overview

Whether you are teaching a single lesson, designing self-guided resources, or developing an entire information literacy course, Instructional Design Essentials: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides a practical blueprint to understanding the theory, concepts, tools, and strategies for analyzing learner needs; designing and implementing systematic instruction; and conducting assessment in face-to-face and online library learning environments.

A one-stop guide for library teaching, Instructional Design Essentials provides real-life examples and documents, professional insight from teaching librarians and instructional designers, and templates and exercises designed to increase library instruction effectiveness for teaching librarians and staff at all experience levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538107232
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/22/2018
Series:	Practical Guides for Librarians , #42
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	8.16(w) x 10.69(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sean Cordes is currently a professor at Western Illinois University where he teaches bibliographic instruction, library credit courses, and coordinates the library instruction program His research interests include human-computer interaction in the teaching, learning, and training process, and the development of 21st century information skills. He has published scholarly articles and research in the areas of information seeking and library instruction and management.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Libraries, Literacy, and Learning
Chapter Two: Library Instruction: Roles, Standards, and Styles
Chapter Three: Determining the Instructional Need
Chapter Four: Learning About Learners
Chapter Five: Analyzing Goals, Tasks, and Objectives
Chapter Six: Evaluating Instruction: Formative and Summative Assessment
Chapter Seven: Developing Instruction
Chapter Eight: The Future of Library Learning and Instruction

Editorial Reviews

Too often library instruction consists of either providing information or clicking through a demonstration. The strength of this book is in applying learning theories to designing effective instructional strategies, with specific examples for librarians.

James A. West

Sean Cordes’ Instructional Design Essentials: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a meticulously researched, comprehensive tool that can be used in a variety of libraries to produce lifelong learners for our digital age. Using various methodologies to create a model and assessment plan for any library instruction program, Sean provides a script that modernizes information literacy instruction for the digital age.

T. J. Urbanski

An excellent bridge between instructional design and library science, Instructional Design Essentials is a critical addition to the Practical Guide for Librarians series. It bridges the fields of instructional design and library science by distilling the theory and practice of instructional design into principles, processes, and strategies needed in practical applications for librarians.

Hoyet H Hemphill