Week 1 introduction
Welcome to Week 1 of the eTutoring course!
In this week, you will explore the following topics and concepts:
- Online learning communities
- Synchronous and asynchronous learning
- eTutor's roles and tasks
- eTutor's qualifications and skills
- eTutor's workflow
- Feedback provision
- Some tips for written feedback
- Motivating learners
- Hosting learners
- Management of online classes
- Responding to troubles in online courses
- Time management and
- Group organisation.
Each of the topics covered in Week 1 has a quiz that was developed to help you test your own learning progress. At the same time, this week's quizzes will contribute 25% of your final grade. In Week 1, we recommend that you spend four to five hours engaging with the week content and quizzes. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to post them in Week 1 Forum.
We look forward to supporting your learning in the week ahead.
Assessment
The course has 27 quizzes, some of which have multiple questions. Each question has one point. You can attempt quizzes twice except the ones that consist of True/False questions for which only one attempt is allowed. Week 1 quizzes will contribute 25% of your total grade. Another 25% will come from Week 2 quizzes, which means Week 1 and Week 2 quizzes will add up to 50% of your total grade. The remainder 50% will come from the practical components of the course: 1) your contribution to the forum in Week 4 with a particular attention to the quality of prompt, probe, reply and closing posts you will make in the forum and 2) the quality of constructive feedback you will provide to a learner on his assignment.
We look forward to your active participation in Week 1!