This paper presents a Web 2.0 approach for the arrangement of peer tutoring in online learning. In online learning environments, the learners’ expectations of obtaining frequent, one-to-one support from their teachers tend to increase the teachers’ workloads to unacceptably high levels. To address this problem of workload a self-organised peer allocation mechanism is proposed for the easy arran...

The researchers in the field of cognitive science and learning science suggest that the teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning (Chi, et al, 2001). Teachable agent (TA) is a modified version of traditional intelligent tutoring system that assigns a role tutor to teach the agent. To validate the effectiveness of the specific TA, KORI (KORea university Intelligent agent)...

We investigated 28 learners’ postural patterns associated with naturally occurring episodes of boredom, flow/engagement, confusion, frustration, and delight during a tutoring session with AutoTutor, a dialoguebased intelligent tutoring system. Training and validation data were collected in a learning session with AutoTutor, after which the learners’ affective states (i.e., emotions) were rated ...

Reciprocal peer tutoring is a form of peer-assisted learning involving structured switching tutor–tutee roles amongst students the same academic year. The study aimed to explore students’ experiences being facilitator in simulation-based learning. pilot had hermeneutic explorative qualitative design. Data were collected through two sets semi-structured focus-group interviews with four final-yea...

The private tutoring has become a widespread phenomenon in Punjab, Pakistan. study examines the growth of Pakistan, and its impact on parents' financial burden credibility education system. Study followed an interpretive paradigm. research design used for this was phenomenological approach involves semi-structured interviews with 50 parents, qualitative content analysis to analyze data. NVivo-1...

OBJECTIVES Peer-assisted learning (PAL) is a form of collaborative learning where members of a peer group act as teachers for each other. A reciprocal PAL program was designed to investigate whether there were differential gains in knowledge acquisition among tutors compared with tutees. DESIGN Bayesian statistical analysis was used to quantitatively assess the effect of tutor status on perfo...

This article analyzes the writing development of heritage speakers (hs) Spanish in an intermediate level composition course at University California, Davis. The data comprised 480 essays written by 80 students from two groups: one who received face-to-face peer tutoring before covid-19 pandemic (Fall 2019), and online during 2020). These were analyzed terms lexical richness as measured (a) dens...