These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 5th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2017 (ICEduTech 2017), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Western Sydney University, held in Sydney, Australia, 11-13 December 2017. ICEduTech is…

Describes the varieties of "Writing Fellows" (curriculum-based peer tutoring) programs. Provides help for starting such programs. Presents results of a survey of WF programs. Offers observations based on the experiences of the director of a six-year-old Writing Fellows program. (RS)

Describes how students were actively involved in constructing a survey that was used to determine the types of programs female residential students would be most interested in attending. Presents both methodologies used to understand the level of student interest in the program as well as how the data collected were used to recruit potential peer…

This book proposes the application of peer tutoring to library instruction, primarily in the academic library setting. Chapter 1 provides a brief historical view of library instruction and current trends that make peer tutoring a possible form of library service. Chapter 2 describes peer tutoring as currently practiced in higher education.…

A comprehensive peer-instructional system, was developed to provide leaders for small discussion groups in undergraduate college course. The program's structure and function is outlined. Presented at the Indiana Council on Family Relations, Muncie, Indiana, February 18, 1975. (Author)

Librarians at the University of Florida partnered with the Anthropology department to develop a peer-to-peer program to provide outreach to undergraduates taking anthropology courses. Discusses the development and implementation of the peer instruction program and presents results of the surveys that evaluated the program. (Author/AEF)

Describes a program for writing across the curriculum that involves English majors tutoring students in other disciplines. (HTH)

As part of its peer tutor training program, the writing/reading center at a Massachusetts University conducts a videotape production workshop in which experienced tutors plan, write, and act in a video script used for training new tutors. To proceed with such a program requires no professional skills or special talents, but a television studio…

Recounts the difficulties and rewards of designing and establishing a computer-based writing lab--including problems with planning, funding, staffing, and expansion of physical space. (NKA)

Although to speak of achieving the ideal writing center is to entertain a most romantic notion, there are steps that can be taken to improve the quality of a college or university writing center. The mission of the writing center, which may vary from school to school, must be clearly established. The organization of the center should be examined.…

This bibliography is intended to provide the educational researcher, classroom teacher, and school administrator with information that will enable them to instigate a peer tutorial program. It includes articles on forms of tutoring that have potential for the involvement of children as tutors, such as structured tutoring and programed tutoring.…

An overall scheme for using foreign students in a teaching capacity is discussed. An experimental class at the University of Minnesota, which uses foreign students as teachers to illustrate the processes of development of the three countries of Nigeria, Thailand and Turkey, is examined. (Author/MLW)

A Furman University program called School Initiated Teacher Education Outreach trained school personnel as peer inservice providers and consultants to general education personnel. The 61 special education teachers, speech therapists, and curriculum specialists completed three courses on inservice content and presentation and peer consultation.…

A peer tutor program designed to reduce student stress, develop tutor skills, and improve the learning environment is outlined. The program focuses on comprehension of curriculum content, time management, study skills, organization of laboratory projects and study materials, and manual skills development. (MSE)

A reflective coaching program was implemented to improve the professional work culture of a school district with morale problems because of labor disputes and strikes. An underlying principle of the program emphasized the role of teachers as the key instructional decision-makers for the classroom. The guiding principle for the teacher-coach…