From the Comfort of Your Office: Facilitating Learner-Centered Continuing Education in the Online Environment

Abstract

Continuing education for library cataloging is increasingly available. Instructors who are developing and facilitating these education opportunities can adopt a learner-centered approach. This approach uses a variety of techniques that place the learners' needs at the center of the course design, enabling online education to meet the diverse needs of the participants.

KEYWORDS:

• training
• cataloging education
• online continuing education
• learner-centered education
• cataloging administration/ management

Notes

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31. Ibid., xvii.

32. Ibid., 9.

33. Ibid, 34.

34. Ibid, 104

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