Design and development of a computer assisted instruction system in the area of bibliographic instruction

The academic community in almost all disciplines is faced with new information sources continuously. Many library resources have been replaced by electronic ones. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate a Computer Assisted Instruction hypermedia system that helps librarians and faculty to provide marketing students of TEI of Thessaloniki with the necessary competencies to locate and interpret the information they need. The product was one of the outcomes of the PhD thesis "Design and development if an interactive multimedia tool: a model for a bibliographic instruction course in a Greek academic institution" that was defended in June 2004 by Stella Korobili at the Department of Library and Information Science, Comenius University. In attempting to prepare the instructional material, there were several concerns: - the epistemological basis for the design and use of a hypermedia system, - the technology that will facilitate students learning, - the preferences of faculty, students and librarians regarding the content of the material, - the links that will help learners to acquire knowledge in multidimensional ways, - how evaluation of the performance of students will be handled.