Library tutorials offer on demand and as-needed instruction, a necessity as higher education continues to extend the reach of online learning. Our institution has increased its online course offerings alongside a university-wide shift in pedagogical and student-centered philosophy. To align our library tutorials webpage with these advances, we…

The resources framework provides a useful and generative model of student thinking and learning. In particular, it suggests various strategies for instruction such as priming resources and refining intuition that allow students to build on knowledge they already have. In this paper, we describe the affordances of the resources framework in guiding…

A description of the various forms of academic assistance available to University of Akron students: course tutoring, emergency tutoring, perspective tutoring, structural tutoring, follow-up tutoring, and referral tutoring. (SJL)

The University of Minnesota Martin Luther King Tutorial Program is discussed. Part One gives the basic plan of the program. Part Two discusses the recruiting of students. A description of the students is presented in Part Three. The tutorial groups in operation is discussed in Part Four. This included launching the program, defining staff roles,…