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 \nDévelopper des tutoriels pour plusieurs institutions partenaires : un réel défi !  \nBrigitte Belzile  \nAbstract  \nThis case describes the two-year development of a set of interactive tutorials for students and faculty at a number of community colleges and one university in order to target information literacy skills among their students, primarily searching for and evaluating information found online. The tools created were published under a Creative Commons license and made available to faculty members and instructors for the purposes of both online and classroom delivery. The main problems encountered dealt with collaboration issues arising between participating institutions, the availability and skill sets of the main contributors and the beta testing of materials developed for the target clientele.  \nKeywords: information literacy, instructional design, collaboration, technology-enhanced tools, tutorial, website, ADDIE  \nInstitutional context  \nWhen Luke was hired at Northern University (NU) as an instructional designer, one of his first assignments was a collaborative project involving not only NU but also four large community colleges located in the same area (Figure 1) . The project, dubbed Vivacity, was made possible by a development grant obtained a few weeks prior to Luke’s arrival.  \nFor some time now, faculty and instructors had been requesting help developing information literacy skills among their students, specifically skills related to conducting online research, finding the right keywords, using Google and other databases, evaluating references, identifying instances of plagiarism, and so on. In short, the targeted information literacy skills were those that they and their students needed to be successful in their work or studies.  \nThe main objective of this project was the design and development of instructional materials to support faculty and instructors in their course design, namely information literacy tutorials. The materials developed would be published on a website that was open to all institutional partners and eventually to the general public.  \nThe main players  \nDirectors (Urban College and Northern University) Josée et Florence  \nProject Development Team  \nNorthern University Urban College Laurels College Cape Diamond College St-Peter's College  \nFlorence, Vincent, Christina, François, Lucille  \nJosée et Andrée  \nJustine  \nRoy et Linda  \nKarina  \nFigure 1 – Project administrative structure  \n● Two directors: Florence at NU and Josée at Urban College (UC)  \n● A Steering Committee appointed by the institutions: Cristina, Justine, Josée, Karina, Roy, Vincent  \n● Luke, an experienced Instrumental Designer recently hired by NU  \n● Daniel, an experienced Community College instructor with expertise in information literacy, assigned full-time to the project and working mainly from home (300 kms from NU)  \n● Maude, a recent Information Sciences graduate with a specialty in Information Literacy and Information Technologies, assigned full-time to the project  \nDevelopment and implementation stages  \nRedefinition of the project  \nA year had elapsed between the writing of the Vivacity project and obtaining the grant. One of Luke’s first tasks in the initial stages of development of the project was to reframe several components. At the Steering Committee meeting, he presented a hard copy of an intricate conceptual map he had made of the project; on the big screen, it would have been unreadable.  \nVincent (Steering Committee member): If you publish the tutorials just in Flash, some students won’t be able to read them. So we should make sure the tutorials can be accessed using various mobile technologies.  \nKarina: But do students use these technologies? To the best of my knowledge, they use phones but not necessarily smartphones.  \nJustine: In my college classroom, computers are still banned by most instructors! We are still far from ","cbCaifR9gwvE801P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifR9gwvE801P","pdf",671441,24,"English","# Institutional context\n## Main objective and institutional players\n# Development and implementation stages\n## Redefinition of the project\n## Establishing work processes\n## Instructional design model","[{\"question\":\"What was the primary goal of the Vivacity project?\",\"answer\":\"To design and develop instructional materials—information literacy tutorials—to support faculty and instructors in their course design and to improve students’ online research skills.\"},{\"question\":\"Which information literacy skills did the tutorials target?\",\"answer\":\"They focused on searching and evaluating information found online, including using appropriate keywords, Google and databases, assessing references, and identifying plagiarism.\"},{\"question\":\"What major difficulties did the project face during development?\",\"answer\":\"Collaboration issues between participating institutions, differences in availability and skills among main contributors, and the beta testing of materials for the intended audience.\"}]","Developing Tutorials for several Institutional Partners - a real challenge! | PDF",1792085632]