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

D 2019

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

TULINSKÁ, Hana

Basic information

Original name

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

Authors

TULINSKÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

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

Publisher

Centre for Higher Education Studies

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

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

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00116138

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-86302-85-0

UT WoS

000588063400024

Keywords in English

distance education; online course; tutoring; higher education

Abstract

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.

Citovat

TULINSKÁ, Hana. CROSS-AGE PEER TUTORS AS IMPORTANT ACTORS OF UNIVERSITY ONLINE COURSES –INFORMATION LITERACY COURSE CASE STUDY. Online. In Beseda, Jan; Rohlíková, Lucie; Dufek, Václav. E-learning: Unlocking the Gate to Education around the Globe. Prague: Centre for Higher Education Studies, 2019, p. 247-258. ISBN 978-80-86302-85-0.

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TULINSKÁ, Hana. CROSS-AGE PEER TUTORS AS IMPORTANT ACTORS OF UNIVERSITY ONLINE COURSES –INFORMATION LITERACY COURSE CASE STUDY. Online. In Beseda, Jan; Rohlíková, Lucie; Dufek, Václav. \textit{E-learning: Unlocking the Gate to Education around the Globe}. Prague: Centre for Higher Education Studies, 2019, p.~247-258. ISBN~978-80-86302-85-0.

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