As online learning opportunities increase in today's society, librarians need to consider additional ways to design online instruction effectively. Developing the strategies necessary to teach and learn online successfully requires an understanding of learning styles and how they may be best addressed in the online environment. As is the case in a face‐to‐face classroom, the use of a specific teaching style or set of styles must expand in order to address different learning styles when teaching online. Successful teaching and learning depend on all participants possessing the attitudes necessary to succeed in the online environment. This paper provides information about learning and teaching styles, and it addresses how teaching to various learning styles may be accomplished using the available online tools and resources.
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1 December 2004
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December 01 2004
Teaching the teachers: teaching and learning online Available to Purchase
Barbara A. Burd;
Barbara A. Burd
Head of Reference and Information Literacy, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
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Lori E. Buchanan
Lori E. Buchanan
Instructional Services Librarian and Professor, Austin Peay University, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1716
Print ISSN: 0090-7324
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2004
Reference Services Review (2004) 32 (4): 404–412.
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Burd BA, Buchanan LE (2004), "Teaching the teachers: teaching and learning online". Reference Services Review, Vol. 32 No. 4 pp. 404–412, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/00907320410569761
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