Sidecar Learning: a new e-learning platform for librarians.

Yvonne Mery

doi:10.5195/jmla.2020.1048

Abstract

This article describes how two librarians at the University of Arizona created a new e-learning tool, Sidecar Learning, and implemented tutorials aimed at health sciences students and researchers. Librarians at the University of Arizona have used these interactive tutorials to reach thousands of students. Sidecar Learning was created to provide librarians with a scalable means of teaching thousands of students how to use complicated library databases.

Highlights

This article describes how two librarians at the University of Arizona created a new e-learning tool, Sidecar Learning, and implemented tutorials aimed at health sciences students and researchers
Virtual Projects are published on an annual basis in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) following an annual call for virtual projects in MLAConnect and announcements to encourage submissions from all types of libraries
This eventually led to the development of a new electric learning tool and business, Sidecar Learning

Summary

Introduction

This article describes how two librarians at the University of Arizona created a new e-learning tool, Sidecar Learning, and implemented tutorials aimed at health sciences students and researchers. For more than ten years, librarians at the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) used a locally developed learning tool, the Guide on the Side (GOTS), to create online, interactive tutorials. GOTS was an open source tool that won national awards and was widely used by librarians across the United States.

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