Instruction Request Podcast

Episode 15 Tutoring, Sage Skills Databases and Curio XR

by Beryl White-Bing on 2025-05-13T16:28:39-04:00 in General Research, Virtual Reality | 0 Comments

Episode 15 of the Instruction Request Podcast has a tutoring  focus for students faculty and staff. Lauren Odom, the Instruction Librarian and Beryl White-Bing, the Virtual Learning Librarian  cover where UNF Students  may find resources face to face in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida:

  • All of the Student support Areas at UNF offer hours in the library. The Writing Center, Student Academic Success Services and the Smart Center  have spaces and offer hours of help in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library.
  • Lauren covers how to access and use the Sage Skills Database, available in the A-Z Database list,   which allows the user to acquire academic and professional skills necessary to succeed. Sage Skills includes two units, Business Skills and Student Success.
  • Beryl reviews the Curio XR Virtual Reality Applications and highlights the possible uses for student collaboration and for faculty use to supplement and enhance their classroom instruction.
  • The episodes concludes with the Library VR Champion Dr. Cari Andreani, the Assistant Director of the Student Academic Support Services who has encouraged her tutors and SI instructors to use the Curio XR VR application and other VR experiences application

Links:

Writing Program & Center https://www.unf.edu/coas/english/wc/index.html

Student Academic Success Services https://www.unf.edu/student-success/sass/index.html

SMART Center: Math and Stats Tutoring at UNF https://www.unf.edu/smart-center/index.html

Sage Skills Database https://go.openathens.net/redirector/unf.edu?url=https://sk.sagepub.com/skills

Curio XR https://unf-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_UNF/84eb4c/alma99384549828206598  https://webapps.unf.edu/faculty/bio/N00606914

Credits:

University of North Florida's Library home page - https://www.unf.edu/library/

The Virtual Learning Center - https://libguides.unf.edu/VLC

Recorded and edited by Andy Rush at the UNF Center for Instructional Research and Technology. https://www.unf.edu/cirt/creative-Vid...

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