Online Tutoring: Going It on Your own or Collaborating
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Online Tutoring: Going it On Your Own or Collaborating UMass Dartmouth Instructional Development
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Providing online tutoring for todays college student is a growing challenge for student support services in higher education. Some institutions contract with an outside vendor to provide this service, while others create their own virtual tutoring programs. Many schools, however, find they do not have the resources, human or monetary, to attempt either option. This session will explore practical steps and challenges for setting up ones own virtual tutoring program and will include lessons learned. The session will also share the challenges and benefits drawn from community colleges that choose to participate in eTutoring.org, a collaborative program provided by the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC).
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Online Tutoring: Going it On Your Own or Collaborating
UMass DartmouthInstructional Development
The Decision: Going It On Our Own
• Why?– Financial Issues– Flexibility of Process– Writing Center Concerns• Tutor training• Peer tutors vs. faculty tutors
– Retention Concerns• Student Connection to campus
The Choice: Outsource or Develop
• Outsourcing– WCOnline– AskOnline– SMARTHINKING– Skype/Unyte
• Developing Our Own– Asynchronous Drop Box– Live Chat Help– Wimba Classroom for Live Tutoring
Development Steps
• Securing faculty coordinator• Selecting tutors• Developing tutoring processes– Focus on traditional writing center practices– Practice tutoring in new environments– Forms developed for submission and for responses– Student satisfaction survey for follow up
• Tutor training– Wimba Classroom– Live Chat Tool
The Online Writing Tutoring Portal
• Online Writing Tutoring Portal– http://www.umassd.edu/cits/id/writingtutoring/
The Online Writing Tutoring Portal
The Online Writing Tutoring Portal
The Online Writing Tutoring Portal
Live Helper
Wimba Classroom
Wimba Classroom
Lessons Learned
• Saved financial resources– Used existing software on campus– Live chat tool affordable– Tutors often receiving work study funding– On-going technical support
• Campus writing center– Managing/Scheduling – Training– Scalability– You can build the service, but will students use it?
• Learning Concerns– Does the support service increase student learning?
