Building a scalable mobile library orientation activity with Edventure Builder

Roth, Amanda; Turnbow, Dominique; Goldman, Crystal; Friedman, Lia

doi:10.1108/lht-09-2015-0085

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“…Likewise, Gotschall et al (2021) reported that according to student evaluations of another virtual orientation during the pandemic, "many students would have preferred a one-on-one interaction with their librarian via Zoom's breakout rooms" [20]. For libraries with a smaller number of employees, less labor-intensive alternatives have been reported, including a virtual scavenger hunt using a mobile application [23], augmented reality [24], or asynchronous video [25]. While our format may not be feasible for all institutions due to differences in resources and settings, we believe that sharing our format, materials, and lessons learned will assist other libraries seeking ways to maintain a high-quality orientation experience for students in the post-COVID-19 world.…”

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Redesigning library orientation for first-year medical students during the pandemic

Hickner

Wright

Merlo

et al. 2021

jmla

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Background: Prior to 2020, library orientation for first-year medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine took the form of an on-site treasure hunt competition. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the orientation for the MD class of 2024 was shifted to an all-virtual format. This shift mandated a full redesign of the library orientation.Case Presentation: The Samuel J. Wood Library sought to preserve the excitement and fun of the treasure hunt in the new virtual format. The competition was redesigned as a Zoom meeting using breakout rooms, with library faculty and staff serving as team facilitators. Tasks were rewritten, shifting the focus from the library’s physical spaces to its virtual services and online resources. The redesigned orientation was evaluated using two data sources: a postsession survey of student participants and a debriefing of the library employees who participated. Student evaluations were positive, while the faculty and staff provided numerous suggestions for improving future virtual orientations.Conclusions: A successful virtual library orientation requires careful preparation, including testing the competition tasks, full rehearsal with library facilitators, and a thoughtful approach to technology and logistics. We have chosen to share the materials we developed for other academic health sciences libraries that may wish to take a similar approach to their own virtual orientations.

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Section: Dissemination Of Informationmentioning

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Redesigning library orientation for first-year medical students during the pandemic

Hickner

Wright

Merlo

et al. 2021

jmla

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“…Often these orientations result in students reporting decreased levels of anxiety and increased levels of comfort. 29 There are fewer studies that compare students' perceptions of the library after completing different orientation formats (such as a traditional scavenger hunt to a technology-enhanced scavenger hunt), with the exception of a 2003 study comparing perceptions of new undergraduate students taking a traditional library tour to those doing a self-paced scavenger hunt, but the authors found that the type of orientation taken did not dramatically affect students' attitudes toward the library. 30 By comparing students taking a traditional scavenger hunt orientation to students taking an augmented reality version of the same orientation, this study aims to answer the following research questions:…”

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Effects of an Augmented Reality Library Orientation on Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: An Exploratory Study

Kannegiser

2021

CRL

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Academic libraries use scavenger hunt library orientations to engage students and teach them about the library. Libraries are also starting to use augmented reality (AR) technology in orientations, instruction, and programming. Some libraries have tried augmented reality scavenger hunts for freshman library orientations, but studies have not been done to compare the traditional and AR orientations. This exploratory, quasi-experimental study investigates if the AR library orientation impacts freshman undergraduates' perceptions of the library as measured by students' anxiety and confidence levels. Two groups of first-time, first-year undergraduate students participated in a library orientation in Summer 2019. One received the traditional scavenger hunt model, and another experienced an augmented reality version of the scavenger hunt. Both groups took a pre-orientation survey to determine their comfort with the libraries and librarians in general, and then a post-orientation questionnaire to determine any change in perception of libraries and librarians as well as their satisfaction with the orientation experience. By comparing pre-and post-survey results from both sets of students, this study determined that while both orientations had a positive impact on students' perceptions of the library, the AR orientation had a significant impact on students' perceptions of librarians' desire to help them.

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“…Learning organisations need not only to adopt technologies and services but also to align organisational structures and cultures to provide services in the context of rapidly changing demographics and demands in learning organisation context. Roth et al (2015) at UC San Diego described their need to create a scalable orientation activity on an online, and it is a mobile platform. In spite of the significant contributions of technology adoption and continuous research on understanding the digitalisation process in a learning organisation, there are unknown resources on technological readiness.…”

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Digitalisation Success in Learning Organisation: Preliminary Outlook

Maskun¹,

Nor²

2018

Soc. & Manage. Res. J.

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he use of digital information tools in our daily life, demands technicalcompetencies to navigate through digital information successfully. Everylearning organisation today, facing a lot of challenges to keep theirinstitutions going, increasing in growth and sustainable effectively in amodest world. Knowledge is the main resource and the important essencein any of learning organisations. Knowledge management nowadays ispractically accessible through digital tools. The need on which digitalcompetency level and resources availability, are the key factors ondigitalisation success process. This only a concept paper, hence the purposeof this paper is to reveal that in a learning organisation, the digitalisationprocess maybe success with the help of technology, resources and thecompetences of the users. The concept is developed by an extensive literaturereview of on digitalisation and analysis of different knowledge sources ina learning organisation. The key concept can be used by practitioners indeveloping a learning organisation to guide them to choose a sufﬁcientsubset of tools that covers the digitalisation processes to ensure that noprocess is overlooked. The result of successful digitalisation is an interestingarea for further research. However, the current view on value underlies init offering practitioners in giving at least a starting point. The paper can beused by educational organisations to guide on successful in digitalisationprocess effectively and efﬁciently. The paper addresses some of the socialelements related to successful in learning organisations. However, it is more technically targeted. Researchers have analysed that holistic overview andthe effect of digital competence towards the successful of digitalisationprocess. Furthermore, limited research addresses the successful ofdigitalisation process because of the constrains in resources.

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Building a scalable mobile library orientation activity with Edventure Builder

Cited by 11 publications

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Redesigning library orientation for first-year medical students during the pandemic

Redesigning library orientation for first-year medical students during the pandemic

Effects of an Augmented Reality Library Orientation on Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: An Exploratory Study

Digitalisation Success in Learning Organisation: Preliminary Outlook

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