Tutoring online is of interest to the Learning Place who hold many interesting and engaging tools for students to try.
Tutoring online has advantages over face to face tutoring. Instruction on the computer may involve webcams and other apparatus to get started. Online tutoring is more flexible for students to access as the program has been prerecorded. Students need to log on to pick up from where they were or to revise old work. Materials covered may not be aligned to school work but are fully supported by information to allow learning gains for students. Students will need to have access to computers that support the programs that the tutoring is designed to allow access. Tutoring online is successful in the areas of supported learning. Tutors who design these pages and programs are competent in scaffolding, summarising, giving feedback, classifying participant knowledge, correcting faulty information and limiting discussions. Students may miss the face to face concept as they can not read facial expressions or body language while engaged with a computer.
Maths online is a good tool as it contains video and audio lessons that demonstrate the steps and concepts of maths in a variety of ways. Every lesson has a worksheet for students to practice skills. answers are submitted on line and the work is immediately checked and scored. Work solutions are supplied for every question. the school in which I work use this program as a home tutor for students to reinforce what they have been taught in the lesson.
Karen.
Wkipedia. (2010). Online Tutoring. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_tutoring
Maths Online Pty. Ltd. (n.d.). Maths Online. Retrieved from http://mathsonline.com.au
Dear Karen,
ReplyDeleteI feel that online tutoring sites are very useful in classes where there are varying levels of abilities. The less advanced can have reinforcement at home through online tutoring. The learning can be tailored to each individual level.
In my experience, I feel that as a learning manager, you tend to teach to the medium of the class. You cater your lesson to the majority and thus those at the both ends can disengaged.
Technology like online tutoring can be used as a tool to bridge these differences.
This is especially so now that Australia's education outcomes are emphasizing on literacy and numeracy.
As a learning manager I work in Special Education where everything is focused on the individual, therefore many things can be happening in the room at the same time. I agree with you that e-learning and using online tutorials can help with different academic levels within the same class. Students are able to access similar learning at a level that is suitable for the individual.
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Online tutoring service is the best way to learn any subject according to our choice and needs. We are also working with it. Thanks for sharing this great post.
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