There is more to success than meets the eye : tutor’s role on student’s performance in E-learning

المؤلفون المشاركون

Salti, Hasan
al-Aqidi, Marwan
Hamid, Usamah H.

المصدر

التعليم المفتوح : الدور، التحديات و الحلول : المنعقد في الفترة 25-27 نوفمبر 2013

الناشر

الجامعة العربية المفتوحة

تاريخ النشر

2013-11-30

دولة النشر

الكويت

عدد الصفحات

5

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم التربوية

الموضوعات

• المؤتمرات

الملخص الإنجليزي

A major concern for both tutors and learners in e-learning systems is how to compensate the motivational effects that accompany the transfer of education in the traditional, that is, face-to-face learning system.

We studied this problem by considering the umber as well as the temporal vicinity of on-line interactions between tutors and their students over the Learning Management System (LMS), provided by the Arab Open University.

We found that different tutors used the LMS differently frequent.

This affected not only the frequency of using the LMS by their students, but also the students' overall performance in the corresponding courses.

The more often a tutor interacts with her students over the LMS, the higher the students' overall performance.

This suggests that the frequent use of the LMS by tutors could compensate the motivational effects that are otherwise characteristic for face-to-face interactions between tutors and students in the traditional learning system.

Moreover, applying regression techniques to the collected data demonstrates the capacity of the number of LMS interactions between tutors and students as a predictor of students' overall performance in a given course.

Other students preserve an almost steady frequent number of interactions with their tutors along the whole semester.

This emphasizes the role of individual differences (apart from tutor's engagement) for enhanced performance.

Our findings imply that beside students' indispensable engagement, achieving successful results in e-learning also depends on the tutor's effective use of the Learning Management System.

نوع البيانات

أوراق مؤتمرات

رقم السجل

BIM-436232

• APA
• MLA
• AMA