Abstract
A multitude of students and volunteers across the world are participating in online discussion boards to receive and provide tutoring assistance anonymously. These e-communities are an important resource for students of the 'net generation' to resolve authentic questions and achieve understanding but have not received due attention in educational research. I investigate an open e-community that provides homework help for introductory calculus students. A corpus of 100 exchanges is analyzed for student and tutor participation, with special attention paid to problem-solving activity by the student. The results show that many students are using this e-community for mastery-oriented versus dependency-oriented help-seeking.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL |
| Publisher | Academic Conferences Limited |
| Pages | 497-506 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 2007-January |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781905305469 |
| State | Published - 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2nd International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL 2007 - New York, United States Duration: Jun 28 2007 → Jun 29 2007 |
Other
| Other | 2nd International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL 2007 |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New York |
| Period | 6/28/07 → 6/29/07 |
Keywords
- Calculus tutoring
- Discussion forums
- E-Help communities
- Tutoring
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems
- Education