Abstract
Despite success in teaching the class ‘Organization of Information in a School Library Media Center’ (EDCI 545) online, one component continued to be a problem for students, the Dewey Decimal Classification System. To supplement the instruction, a set of simple screencasts was developed to assist distance education students. Benchmarks were established and a beta test conducted. It is expected that the next online class of students will have increased success because of the addition of screencasts. It is suggested that screencasts be considered as an additional tool for online learners across other disciplines, particularly when using databases that have layered sets of information, requiring multiple mouse clicks.
Highlights
For several years, EDCI 545, ‘Organization of Information in a School Library Media Center’ has been offered by the College of Education at Montana State University as an online course as part of the university’s Extended University
Student success has been high in EDCI 545
Most students were already familiar with the intricacies of online learning, such as submitting assignments as attachments, participating in online
Summary
EDCI 545, ‘Organization of Information in a School Library Media Center’ has been offered by the College of Education at Montana State University as an online course as part of the university’s Extended University. The course has been offered over the summer as a seven week intensive course, but it is usually a semester long class In both the intensive and semesterlength course, the main components include:. Students are usually full-time employees in a school library, either a grade school or high school What they learn in class is directly applicable to their workplace. The schedules include references to separate tables with yet other layers of classification numbers. All registered students were given temporary student access to the online version of the Dewey Decimal Classification schedule through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) network (see www.oclc.org). Many students asked for individual assistance through email, it was still not possible to show them physically where to click in the online schedule, and email responses included complicated written instructions
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