A Survey of Online Library Tutorials: Guiding Instructional Video Creation to Use in Flipped Classrooms
There has been a steady increase in library literature on “flipping the classroom.” This teaching strategy requires
students to review course material outside the classroom before hand, thereby allowing more time during workshops
to apply newly gained knowledge and techniques. The proliferation of literature on classroom flipping
provoked an interest to determine if other academic libraries were making explicit reference on their websites
to the preliminary viewing of videos in a classroom context. To ascertain the extent of this practice, and inform
the development of instructional videos at McGill, the authors surveyed all Canadian Association of Research
Libraries (CARL) and Association of Research Libraries (ARL)websites to document the production of instructional
videos, determine the various types of videos, and take note of explicit pre-viewing instructions prior to a
workshop. Of the 140 libraries examined, 107 (76%) provide instructional videos on their website. However, of
this group, only 2 (2%) clearly instruct users to watch instructional videos before attending a library research
workshop. A literature review documents this emerging trend and contextualizes the results