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Tutoring Online: Principles and Practice
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Description
This course is instructor-led, fully online, and four weeks in length. It introduces the principles of tutoring and how those principles can be accomplished in the online environment. Participants will actively discuss topics related to tutoring and have the opportunity to tutor a peer online.
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Audience
Tutors, potential tutors, and faculty who want to know how to use online tools for tutoring traditional subjects, and administrators creating online tutoring programs.
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Topics
Participants will explore the following topics:
• What is tutoring?
• How adults and young students learn.
• Differences between traditional and online tutoring.
• Roles and responsibilities of tutors, the tutoring cycle.
• Strategies for tutoring effectively online.
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Outline
Module 1 – What tutoring is and is not, how tutoring is different and the
same as classroom instruction, and how students learn.
Module 2 – Responsibilities and roles of tutors, differences and similarities
between traditional tutoring and online tutoring
Module 3 – The importance of listening and questioning and how they can
be accomplished online
Module 4 – Conducting an online tutoring session
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Goals
• Give prospective online tutors an opportunity to experience a virtual
tutoring environment.
• Model facilitator skills and technologies that participants could use
in their own tutoring sessions.
• Explore methods for tutoring adults
• Discuss strategies for becoming an effective online tutor.
• Consider strategies to promote communication online.
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In threaded discussions via an asynchronous online discussion forum, participants
will:
• Identify key characteristics of adult learners
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of successful tutors
• Identify skills, and strategies tutors need to be successful in the online
environment
In a final Tutoring project participants will:
• Tutor a colleague online using the IVCTutor asynchronous discussion,
synchronous chat, or synchronous whiteboard.
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The course is four weeks in length and requires an online orientation.
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You may take this course without any course prerequisites.
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• Answer discussion questions related to the assigned Web articles.
• Engage in positive and meaningful dialog with classmates concerning the
course subject matter.
• Write essays describing academic experiences.
• Write a summary of the key items covered and how they apply to your field.
• Tutor a colleague
• Be an online tutee.
• Write a reflective tutor journal.
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The course has a modular structure in which each unit is individually assessed, but successive units build on previous information. Content is in the form of active participation in asynchronous discussion and synchronous chat, direct email, postings of materials, Web resources, and instructor notes. Student participation in discussion forums to comment on the ideas and work of others is a major component of the course. Students will acquire more in-depth information on some topics through links to outside sources.
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This is an intensive course requiring about 8-10 hours a week. The time commitment will vary depending the individual's input, needs, and personal study habits. Students are required to log on to the course a minimum of 3 times a week.
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Continuing Education Credit (CEU Credit)
4 Continuing education units (CEU credit) are available for this course.
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A charge is incurred
for anyone enrolled in an Advanced Online Seminar, although there is a discount
for ION members. The tuition is determined by the
number of contact hours and online discussion requirements for the course.
To view the tuition schedule
for a specific section of this course, visit the Schedule and
click on the link for that section (e.g. TM0551).
Taking a course for Graduate Credit through the University of Illinois
at Springfield (UIS):
All of our courses except the Advanced Online Seminars may be taken for graduate
courses through UIS. You do not pay twice if you choose this
route. You pay only the fees associated with UIS enrollment. If you choose
to enroll through UIS, you need to follow the instructions.
You do not register through this site.
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