E tutoring
E-tutoring involves teaching, supporting, managing, and assessing students in online or virtual environments where teachers and learners are separated by time and space. It requires competencies in the subject matter, pedagogy, and understanding technology's limitations. Traditional tutoring has drawbacks like not optimizing learning time, inability to tailor lessons, and difficulty monitoring progress. Present-day e-tutoring offers many online courses from various sites and signals a paradigm shift by allowing open access to diverse curricula. MOOCs and NPTEL further this trend by hosting free massive open online courses from top universities worldwide and providing online engineering and science courses through Indian institutions. E-tutoring represents the next step in
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- 1. E- Tutoring Dr. S. Prakash Principal Thiagarajar College of Preceptors Madurai.
- 2. e Tutoring
- 3. SCOPE • Definition of e Tutor • Competencies required • Drawbacks of traditional tutoring • Present day e Tutoring on the net • What are MOOCs? • What is NPTEL? • Conclusion
- 4. Definition of e Tutor • E-tutoring can be defined as teaching, support, management and assessment of students on programmes of study that involve a significant use of online technologies • Also defined as the process of tutoring in an online, virtual environment or networked environment in which teachers and learners are separated by time and space.
- 5. COMPETENCIES REQUIRED • A good all round knowledge of the subject-matter of the course • The background pedagogy that underpins the course • A good understanding of the limits and limitations of the information and communications technology
- 6. DRAWBACKS OF TRADITIONAL TUTORING • Usually not entire time of training is spent on effective learning • Impossibility of adjusting message to level of all participants ('one size does not fit all') • Difficulties in monitoring participants' progress and evaluating acquired knowledge. • Teaching process may vary depending on tutor, participants, time of day
- 7. PRESENT DAY E TUTORING ON THE NET • Various sites are available nowadays for the task • Also a source of employment • Students are free to access any courses of their choice • Students not bound by a rigid curriculum • Encourages open thinking • Signals a paradigm shift in teaching and learning process
- 8. MOOCs • Massive Open Online Courses • Recent development in 2012 • US leads the race worldwide • edX, Coursera and UDACITY are some of most popular sites • Ivy league varsities such as MIT, Harvard, Cornell, etc host their courses • Courses spread over a variety of fields
- 9. NPTEL • National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning • Funded by MHRD • NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. • The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware.
- 10. NPTEL • Course material prepared by seven IITs and IISC • Video, pdf downloadable formats available
- 11. CONCLUSION • Next step in education • Indicator of role of technology in evolution of teaching/ learning process • Free open education to all with a net connection