e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(1):32-45 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.004
Tutor's role in eLearning courses
- PhDr. Blanka Frydrychová Klímová, Ph.D., M.A., doc. RNDr. Petra Poulová, Ph.D., Fakulta informatiky a managementu, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové, e-mail: Blanka.Klimova@uhk.cz, Petra.Poulova@uhk.cz
Teachers are all the time looking for different ways of increasing the quality of their teaching. At present the use of computers and new technologies has become an important aspect of education. They have enabled the teaching community to redefine some of the strategies and concepts of teaching and learning. In this climate computer-based distance learning courses have emerged. One of the supports of the distance learning is e-learning, which is widely used at the University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic. The article attempts to examine how the traditional role of a teacher in the e-courses changes and what preconditions are pivotal for the tutoring of such courses. In addition to that, it provides results of small-scale research which was carried out among the teachers of the Faculty of Informatics and Management of UHK in order to discover how theory reflects field experience.
Keywords: ICT, e-learning, didactics, change, tutoring, students, survey
Published: February 1, 2012 Show citation
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