Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship

Using the practice of embedded librarianship, a professor from Graduate School Education and Librarian at Rutgers, The State University New Jersey collaborated to investigate its impact on inherent transactional distance that exists in an online graduate course. Michael G. Moore’s three relational distances existing environment—“teacher-student,” “student-student,” “student-course content”—the authors added two areas—”instructor-librarian” “student-librarian”—that can close courses. Through course activities, structure, access librarian specific library resources, students had increased opportunities for engagement, thereby reducing distance.