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What is Online Tutor

Chapter 147
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Teaching staff that follows a group of students on a part of their learning path, ensures the efficiency of teaching-to-learning process, promotes the achievement of aims and skills predicted for the academic initiative that he leads, by creating a context of collaborative and active learning, and evaluates how pre-established aims were achieved for students and for the academic intervention (quality management).
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Online Tutoring and Mentoring
Antonio Miguel Seoane Pardo (University of Salamanca, Spain) and Francisco Jose Garcia Peñalvo (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch147
Abstract
Man is the only animal that learns for his whole life. Therefore, learning is one of the most important activities of human beings. Information and communication technologies, and specifically the Internet, brought us new ways to communicate, share information and learn. E-learning has become a modality whose capabilities, advantages and potentials is indisputable, but many of the difficulties inherent to learning activities, far from being sorted out by this new modality, have been increased. Loneliness and de-motivation of elearning users is probably the first cause of failure of online courses.
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