E-learning/online tutoring has became a popular form of learning in USA’s enterprises, where the share of e-learning suppliers showed significant growth in the last years in respect to the share of suppliers of other forms of learning. Online tutors do play an important role in supporting e-learning delivery (such like learning Algebra 1, College algebra and Linear equations) and can perhaps help to improving the alarming drop-out figures e-learning course have been showing in the past years. Online tutors help to fulfill student expectations that can cause students to drop-out if they remain unmet. This is especially important for part-time students that apparently don’t get sufficient support from traditional learning. Because of the importance of the role of online tutors, it is necessary to choose individuals with a set of existing skills that can be developed through careful prepared training programs. Only well-trained tutors will be able to satisfy student expectation about the quantity, frequency and quality of learning supporting activities. We combined these findings in a general model for online tutoring that tries to identify the key elements of quality tutoring support for e-learning. The research showed that well educated tutors with appropriately developed skills were able to improve the quality of e-learning informatics-related courses at a higher educational level business school, or for K-12 such like learning Math answers, Math problem solver, Algebra solver and learning Square root calculator method. In order to test our finding and our online tutoring model we think that further researches on the impacts of the tutoring system for e-learning should be performed in schools of different orientation and level, and on different course subjects as well.
Aug 142010
