BACKGROUND Learning in small group tutorials is appreciated by students and effective in the acquisition of clinical problem-solving skills but poses financial and resource challenges. Interactive seminars, which accommodate large groups, might be an alternative. This study examines the educational effectiveness of small group tutorials and interactive seminars and students' preferences for and...

This study measures how online library instructional tutorials implemented into an evidence-based practice course have impacted the information literacy skills of occupational and physical therapy graduate students. Through a rubric assessment of final course papers, this study compares differences in students' search strategies and cited sources pre- and post-implementation of the tutorials. T...

Eclipse tutorials guide users step by step to perform programming tasks. However, as current executable tutorials can only guide users through one way, users’ specific requirements cannot be satisfied. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to synthesizing different tutorials to generate a tutorial that covers many ways. We use record and replay techniques to generate the original tuto...

This article describes a learner-centered, tutorial-based approach to climate modeling. Using these tutorials, students in general education course global change taught the physics department engaged with compelling, “real-world” questions by drawing on foundational concepts along their prior experiences and conceptual resources process of knowledge construction. Students used simulations, ener...

Introduction. A number of Scandinavian Web-based tutorials on information seeking mediate a kind of discourse of information literacy practice by combining the two themes, written academic assignment and information seeking. The aim of the paper is first to examine students' experience of the pragmatic value of two of these Web-based tutorials, 'VIKO' (www.ntnu.no/viko/english) and 'UB-testen' ...