A Race Against the Clock: Re-Tooling the Tutorial–What Happens When Your Library Gets a New Online Catalog?

Redesigning Comprehensive Library Tutorials

“…Forys and Magarrell, however, discuss the importance of aesthetics in their overhaul of their "Library Explorer" online tutorial to reflect the change in their library' s catalog. 7 Pomales-Garcia and Liu' s article explores the role that aesthetics (and other qualities) play in the learner' s perception of content difficulty, degree of learner engagement ("excitement"), and satisfaction with the learning experience. 8 Pomales-Garcia and Liu discuss the importance of aesthetics and their role in encouraging engagement in terms of Bloom' s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and in terms of Clark and Mayer' s exploration of self-directed learning.…”