This book provides step-by-step guidance to designing online teaching and guidance using a formal instructional design process.

Informed by research and learning theories and oriented specifically to online teaching and learning in a library context, the book will show readers how to:

* apply appropriate learning principles and theories in the instructional design process
* integrate information literacy skills into instructional sequences
* conduct a learner needs assessment
* undertake instructional design planning
* evaluate instructional tools
* evaluate units of instruction.

Each chapter addresses a specific instructional design step and case studies collected from working librarians and trainers illustrating actual and practical instructional strategies in the library context support each chapter's core topic.

Readership: All librarians who teach online.