Given the increasing enrollments at universities and the decrease in available staff and teaching spaces, teaching library skills in a blended teaching or online environment seem to be good solutions (Usova 3). For large first year classes it may be impossible to find appropriate space and staff to provide blended learning situations, so in these cases teaching online may be the only alternative. To provide the optimum learning situation, careful attention must be paid to relevant subject content, active and online learning theories, and feedback from students. By doing so, online learning modules can be effectively designed to replace or supplement face-to-face instruction or hands-on learning for information literacy. Anderson and May reported that the style of instruction has no impact on the retention of information literacy skills by students (498). However, a more recent study by Mery et al. reports that a well-designed online tutorial for information literacy can be more effective than either a lecture or help from a TA (375).