Interactive Searching and Source Evaluation Tutorials
https://osul.libwizard.com/f/Bsearching
With college students entering with differing levels of searching skills, this collection of tutorials created in Libwizard begins with a knowledge check, if a student can safely identify a search with keyword searching, they are transported to the advanced section of keyword searching tutorial. If they cannot? They get the whole tutorial that begins with very basic keyword searching. This method of branching logic will allow more advanced users to not tire quickly with them being tested on knowledge they already possess and moves them quickly onto hopefully new information. While this branching can be challenging to plan out, particularly when having to use it within the limitations of a tool such as libwizard, it’s not impossible. Only a browser is necessary for a student to view and utilize, and as can be shown below, it is capable of being embedded into a page, albeit is not best practice.
I have utilized the personalization principle to bring real-world scenarios into the tutorials to help show the importance of the lessons. Students will have separate tutorials for each big concept, with multiple pages, utilizing the segmentation principle, paired with opportunities to have a hands-on application, and then testing of their knowledge. Each quiz that requires an answer will have customized right and wrong responses, letting a student feel less alone in clicking through a tutorial. At the same time, there are places intentionally included that allow students to see responses from students that came before them, something that also helps battle that feeling of solitary asynchronous digital learning. These hands-on techniques paired with quizzing that supplies immediate feedback should help students recall no less than 4 techniques for searching, as well as demonstrated knowledge of “effective” searching. The tutorial should build on the following learning objective
Differentiate between an “ineffective” search and an “effective” search