Template: Building Online Learning Communities eTutoring Tutor Roles

Teaching Online Module 2, Session 1: Building an online community of learners Use this template to guide you through identifying an online tutors key roles and the skills required to support these roles. Download and save this template for your own reference. What roles do you think youll play when interacting with your students (i.e. academic support, guide, role model, advisor, supervisor, resource provider, administrator, career guide, critical friend, etc)? Description:

How will you communicate your role? The role(s) of the students? Will there be a clear identification of roles and responsibilities for information, advice and guidance? Description:

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A number of student support skills have been provided below. Taking a look at the skills listed in the first column, rate how important you think they are to your role as an online tutor: Very important Listening Advising Informing Assessing Counselling Tutoring Communicati ng Enabling Facilitating / Guiding Information resource Important Dont Know Unimportant

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource for University College Falmouth for the Learn to Teach Online course. The free Learn to Teach Online course is funded by University College Falmouth's Learning and Teaching Enhancement Programme. 2012 University College Falmouth

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Referring to your answers in the table above, if you selected Unimportant or Dont know, think about whether you need to or want to develop these skills and how you might go about this. Description:

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource for University College Falmouth for the Learn to Teach Online course. The free Learn to Teach Online course is funded by University College Falmouth's Learning and Teaching Enhancement Programme. 2012 University College Falmouth

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