Can opportunities be found within this pandemic?
My colleagues and I have found that in creating and modifying our instructional materials for the asynchronous environment, while practicing user-centered and accessible design principles, is a lengthy process. It is longer and more labor-intensive than creating materials meant to be used in a face-to-face context when we have the luxury of explaining more fully as students use them. We have to spell each step out, and ask our student employees to test the results. Then, we find that after creating a new product we are compelled to go back to improve the previous products.
Some librarians are good at creating short videos. I'm not, not yet. I'm better at explaining steps in written form with graphics. When a student colleague completed one assignment I had written, I saw gaps. Now back to modifying!
Is iterative change or continuous improvement, as in changing our instructional materials, contradictory to transformational change? We're in the middle of a catastrophe, and transformational change should result, as seen by publishers opening up digital collections for no cost, education going online-only, and libraries continuing to provide services and collections digitally. What will the transformational change be in library instruction and our learning objects?
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