Tools for Online Tutors
Anne Hewling · Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning · 2004
This brief paper examines the potential of platform based student tracking tools to assist online tutors in monitoring the learning activity of their students. It makes particular reference to a group of students working within one Blackboard mediated classroom by examining how actual behaviour correlated with that monitored automatically by the delivery platform. It concludes that whilst student tracking can be a useful tool in certain circumstances, reliance on it as the sole means of monitoring student participation and learning is unsound.