Evaluating the role of web-based tutorials in educational practice: using interpretative repertoires an meaning negotiation in a two step analysis

Camilla Moring; Trine Schreiber

Evaluating the role of web-based tutorials in educational practice: using interpretative repertoires an meaning negotiation in a two step analysis

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The paper describes and discusses a two step analysis for evaluating web based information literacy tutorials in educational practice. In a recent evaluation project the authors used the analysis to examine three web based tutorials developed by three different academic libraries in Norway. Firstly, each web-based tutorial is analyzed as a communicative act by looking at how it argues for its purpose, how it is rhetorically organized and the interpretative repertoires used. Secondly, the tutorial is analyzed as a tool that users form opinions about while using it, and therefore the second part of the analysis focuses on user reception and meaning negotiation. In combination the two different analyses strengthen the evaluation of how web-tutorials as communicative acts become meaningful to users, and how this meaning is negotiated in relation to an educational practice. This approach can be recommended as complementary to more traditional usability tests.

Translated title of the contribution	Evaluering af web-baserede tutorials i forhold til uddannelsespraksis: anvendelse af fortolkningsrepertoirer og meningsforhandling i en to-trins analyse
Original language	English
Publication date	Jun 2012
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2012
Event	LIDA 2012 (Libraries in the Digital Age): Changes - Universitetet, Zadar, Zadar, Croatia Duration: 18 Jun 2012 → 22 Jun 2012

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Conference	LIDA 2012 (Libraries in the Digital Age)
Location	Universitetet, Zadar
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Zadar
Period	18/06/2012 → 22/06/2012

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