From Podcasts to online courses, new opportunities for delivering instruction abound, enabling learners to access content more conveniently than ever before. Whether for traditional instruction, continuing education or self-directed lifelong learning, librarians can reach audiences who would not or could not typically show up for face-to-face sessions.  The course provides an overview of popular distance education techniques with many examples of how librarins are employing them.  At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to: describe the various methods of distance education, and the instructors' and learners' roles in each, discuss current trends and evidence regarding the effectiveness of distance education, identify opportunities, challenges in using distance education for delivering curriculum; plan an educational activity to be delivered using distance education technology; and explore an online course management system.

Prescription for Information: Addressing Health Information Literacy

At the end of the tutorial, health professionals will be able to:

• Define health literacy and the challenges patients face
  
  
• Recognize the impact low health literacy has on patient care
  
  
• List strategies to improve health information literacy
  
  
• Describe health literacy services provided by medical libraries
  
  
• List one thing you expect to do differently as a result of going through this tutorial

The roles for the library and librarians in the ANCC Magnet Recognition program are explained and discussed. The information needs of nurses will be explored.  Evidence-based nursing practice will be discussed. Possible new services that can be offered to nursing in support of the themes and values of the Magnet program will be discussed.  Each week there will be slides, readings and discussion groups to share ideas.

If you work with nursing faculty & students and/or nurse managers & staff, this course will help you develop your search skills, so that you can improve search services for these groups. In addition to databases and searching, it includes discussion of teaching and collaboration skills. The course includes a model for evidence based searching, overview of nursing terminology, and practice searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Mosby's Index. Learners are expected to contribute to online discussions in a timely manner.

Prescription: Information! Librarians Working with Health Professionals to Improve Health Information Literacy

By the end of this tutorial, participants will be able to:

• Define health literacy and the challenges patients face
• Recognize the impact low health literacy has on patient care
• Name five health information resources and strategies to improve health literacy
• Describe health literacy services and support provided by the library
• Name one thing they plan to do differently as a result of this tutorial

This MLA CE 4-hour course will introduce you to issues surrounding library advocacy and the partnership-building process. Factors for success to help guide the development of active and engaged partnerships will be highlighted. In particular, library advocacy, the advantages and challenges of partnerships, the partnership process, and partnership troubleshooting will be covered. The course content is covered over a four-week period. Throughout the duration of the course, you will participate in four learning activities. Overall, the course is estimated to take approximately four hours on average to complete.