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CROSS-AGE PEER TUTORS AS IMPORTANT ACTORS OF UNIVERSITY ONLINE COURSES –INFORMATION LITERACY COURSE CASE STUDY

TULINSKÁ, Hana

Základní údaje

Originální název

CROSS-AGE PEER TUTORS AS IMPORTANT ACTORS OF UNIVERSITY ONLINE COURSES –INFORMATION LITERACY COURSE CASE STUDY

Autoři

TULINSKÁ, Hana (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Prague, E-learning: Unlocking the Gate to Education around the Globe, od s. 247-258, 12 s. 2019

Nakladatel

Centre for Higher Education Studies

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00116138

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-80-86302-85-0

UT WoS

000588063400024

Klíčová slova anglicky

distance education; online course; tutoring; higher education

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 29. 3. 2021 11:17, Mgr. Hana Tulinská

Anotace

V originále

If we want to think about developing online education at universities, we are at the same time faced with the question of who should facilitate it. Caring for students in massive online courses and ideally formative feedback is timeconsuming, and currently, it is not in possibilities of scholars. However, other participants in the educational process can make a unique contribution to this role – cross-age peers. The question is how to prepare students for the role of peer tutors? What makes their position specific? How do they perceive their tutor's experience? What makes their assessment distinct? How do students evaluate peer tutors? In the case study of the Information literacy and academic writing online course at Masaryk University, we answer these questions by interviewing peer tutors, analysing the results of the course students in the form of a final seminar paper and course evaluation. Peer tutors typically perceive their position as challenging and responsible, tend to have problems with student-teacher-expert identities, as an essential aspect of tutoring they mention their learning. They evaluate the final work of a student differently depending on whether they assess the student they have to cooperate during the semester. Students award peer tutors (4.5 points out of 5), appreciate them and perceive them as tutors or mentors (22 cases) rather than classmates (2 cases). This case study is part of broader research of online education facilitation and competencies of educators. The aim was to point out the role of peers, question our view of a teacher as expert, and contribute for better understanding cross-age peer tutors in university online education.