Strengths and weakness of tutoring in distance university education: workshops with tutors of natural and exact sciences

 

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Autori: Calderon Badilla, Yency, Herrero Villareal, Diana, Andrés Jiménez, Carmen
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2017
Descrizione:In distance education, tutorials system are important to guide learning process, through diagnostic, formative or summative evaluation. However, in some cases, tutorials are overrated, and generate isolation and disorientation. To improve tutoring, we did two workshops with tutors in a Costa Rican distance university, and found that traditional and distance tutoring need to be different. Some tutors do not have enough training in orientation and suffer from absenteeism and lack of familiarity with some topics. On the other hand, they tend to use varied motivation strategies. We also recommend the use of other technologies, such as virtual laboratories and Second LifeTM , and strengthening administrative factors.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UNED
Istituzione:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.investiga.uned.ac.cr:article/1695
Accesso online:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/1695
Keyword:Tutoring
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Tutorías
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