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Beaver, Alaina Feltenberger – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study investigates tutor and student interaction in an online multiliteracy center (the Hub) at a major public research university. This study addresses a gap in the current literature on how writing centers transition to multiliteracy centers and prepare their tutors for consulting with students around aspects of design. There is…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Multiple Literacies, Qualitative Research, Tutors
Donnelly, Roisin – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2009
This paper describes a qualitative study which took place over a two year period with academic staff engaged on a blended Masters programme delivered with the learning environment based around problem-based learning. At the pedagogical level, transformative practice has the potential to engage students as critical thinkers, by encouraging them to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Masters Programs
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Calfee, Jane – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
This article examines the relationship between the use of online tutoring sessions and student success in developmental writing courses. The results suggest a statistically significant difference between the success rates, as measured by course grades, of those students who use the tutoring service and those who do not, thus suggesting the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Writing (Composition)