Synchronic tutoring of a virtual community
| Autor: | Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Alessandra Talamo, P.R.J. Simons |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Multimedia
Computer science Process (engineering) Discourse analysis Dialogical self computer.software_genre Education Virtual machine Human–computer interaction Situated Sociale Wetenschappen ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION TUTOR computer Virtual community computer.programming_language Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Mentoring and Tutoring, 10, 137. Carfax |
| ISSN: | 1361-1267 |
| Popis: | The role of tutors has changed over time, depending on models of learning and on the technology available. This article discusses the evolution of the tutor role and presents a new model concerning the tutoring functions in a synchronous virtual community. The definition of a virtual community starts from a theory of communities of learning and takes the features of the virtual environment into account. A project set in order to verify the tutors' features in a synchronous virtual community with an educational aim will be described in detail. The chats on-line are analyzed combining two analysis systems: (a) a category system describing the tutor's on-line functions; and (b) a discourse analysis exploring the dialogical and interactive dimensions of the tutor interventions. Results gathered from this study highlight typical features of tutoring on-line a virtual community. On-line tutorship appears to be a fluid, situated and dynamic process of meaning negotiation. Tutors are able to take over each others' specific roles and students act as tutors to each other. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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