Peer Tutoring: Active and Collaborative Learning in Practice

Collaborative Learning in an Intelligent Tutoring System

Enhancing vocational English learning through peer tutoring

Background This study aimed to explore how the pilot Peer Tutoring Programme in Youth College (Kowloon Bay) enhanced students’ vocational English learning. The findings showed that the program had positive effects on the students’ academic performance, increased their learning motivation, boosted their confidence and encouraged active learning outside the classroom. According to Topping [1], pe...

Rudeness and Rapport: Insults and Learning Gains in Peer Tutoring

For 20 years, researchers have envisioned artificially intelligent learning companions that evolve with their students as they grow and learn. However, while communication theory suggests that positivity decreases over time in relationships, most tutoring systems designed to build rapport with a student remain adamantly polite, and may therefore inadvertently distance the learner from the agent...

A COLLABORATIVE TRAINING PLATFORM FOR PEER-BASED CO-CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND CO-TUTORING A Collaborative Training Platform for Peer-Based Co-Construction of Knowledge and Co-Tutoring

We propose a collaborative training platform where students collectively contribute to the co-construction of the required knowledge to produce their individual semester project. Peers feedback is implemented in order to complete trainers’ supervision with peer-training. This collaborative platform is implemented as a social network, where collaborative interactions are organized 1) to engage a...

Running head: Peer assessment as collaborative learning Commentary Peer assessment as collaborative learning: A cognitive perspective

Peer assessment is an important component of a more participatory culture of learning. The articles collected in this special issue constitute a representative kaleidoscope of current research on peer assessment. In this commentary, we argue that research on peer assessment is currently in a stage of adolescence, grappling with the developmental tasks of identity formation and affiliation. Iden...