Video lectures help enhance online information literacy course

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a credit‐bearing information literacy course was enhanced through the use of video lectures to deliver course content. Students have a choice of how to access course materials: video lectures or reading material.Design/methodology/approach – A literature review shows that, previously, videos have been used largely to supplement face‐to‐face classes or one‐shot library instruction sessions. A description details the production of video lectures for one of the courses that satisfies the information literacy graduation requirement at Weber State University. For this course, a student survey was then used to measure the actual use and effectiveness of the video lectures.Findings – Survey results indicate that a majority of students use the video lectures, at least partly, and find them helpful.Research limitations/implications – Results also show that many students are comfortable reading course materials rather than viewing the lectures. As more cours...