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
