Creating a Interactive Learning Tutorial on a Budget

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Creating a Interactive Learning
Tutorial on a Budget
Megan A. Davis Kee-Young Moon

• What you need
• Hardware Librarians (technical knowledge
  helpful)
• Software Adobe Captivate (main), Macromedia
  Flash (optional)

Overview To address different learning styles
and to meet the needs of our distance education
learners, Information and Library Services at
UMUC created Secrets of My Research Success, a
self-paced interactive tutorial with game-like
qualities to teach students information literacy
concepts. This tutorial, a cross-team initiative
created entirely in-house, models the research
process via a story.
Watch the tutorial at http//www.umuc.edu/library
/tutorials/RPT/rpt.shtml

• Utilize library liaisons to get your tutorial
  out .(We were able to get the quiz embedded in
  several online classrooms, including the entry
  level graduate management classes.)
• Make it visible on the website.

• Utilize other scripting languages such as Perl
  and Java, if you can do it. Otherwise, games and
  quizzes can also be created using Adobe
  Captivate.
• Recruit actors and record script
• Continue revising script

Tutorial
Module1
Game1
Module2

Game2
Quiz

• Insert games between modules to make the
  learning process engaging.
• Include an assessment device (A quiz with 15
  questions, randomly generated from a pool of 40
  questions, is presented at the end of the
  tutorial)

Conclusion
University of Maryland University College,
Information and Library Services
www.umuc.edu/library