E-tutoring and digital teaching. Modeling practices

Journal title EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND TEACHING
Author/s Simona Ferrari, Irene Mauro, Salvatore Messina, Paolo Raviolo, Pier Cesare Rivoltella
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/0
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 113-125 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/exioa0-2021oa11131
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The work aims to outline e-tutor’s role development in digital teaching, considering the changes that digital and social media introduce in it (Rivoltella, 2017; Ferrari, 2019). The communicative dimension on which this role is based is still very important (Rivoltella, 2006); this means that some skills have to be developed: online moderation, online group management, online communities animation.E-tutor, in particular, is required to be aware of the modeling activity he/she carries out towards students through his/her communication and (interactive and delivery) teaching activities within online degree courses, that is: facilitating the interaction between teachers and students, monitoring teaching activities, supporting teaching staff in verifying students’ preparation, supporting teachers and students in final examinations.The case study presented in the article is about the role of e-tutor in an Italian distance university using an analysis methodology already validated in the literature.

Keywords: distance education, e-learning, e-tutoring, interactive teaching, tutorial functions

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Simona Ferrari, Irene Mauro, Salvatore Messina, Paolo Raviolo, Pier Cesare Rivoltella, E-tutoring nella didattica telematica. Pratiche di modellamento in "EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND TEACHING" 0/2021, pp 113-125, DOI: 10.3280/exioa0-2021oa11131