Teaching information handling skills with hypertext

Abstract

This paper describes the development and content of four Computer Assisted Learning packages designed to teach information skills to higher education students. The areas covered include database searching and library search skills. Educational aspects of using hypertext and hypermedia for learning are discussed along with development issues and a description is given of the staff costs involved. The main source of external funding was the Higher Education Funding Councils' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP).

A survey of hypertext-based public-access point-of information systems in UK libraries

“…In the academic sector, however, a number of schemes managed by the Universities Funding Council have been approached with some degree of success: these are the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, the Enterprise in Higher Education scheme, and the Information Technology Teaching Initiative. These schemes have also proved productive sources of funding for libraryrelated computer-aided learning/computer-based training (CAL/CBT) projects, such as Glasgow University's Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies programme [8].…”

Information skills for an electronic world: training doctoral research students

“…Academic (and other) librarians are directly affected in their work by this changing world and have been among the first to detect this need [5] (cited in [6]):…”