Implementing On-Call-Tutor System for Facilitating Peer-Help Activities

• Published in: IEEE transactions on learning technologies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 73 - 86
• Main Authors: Dong, Jian-Jie, Hwang, Wu-Yuin, Shadiev, Rustam, Chen, Ginn-Yein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2019; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Classrooms; College Students; Control Groups; Control systems; Data analysis; Familiarity; Friendship; Geographic Information Systems; Help Seeking; Helping Relationship; Heterogeneous Grouping; higher education; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Interaction; Learning; Learning Processes; Outcomes of Education; Peer Teaching; Peer tutoring; Process control; Roads; Satellite navigation systems; Social learning techniques; Social network services; social networking; Social Networks; Software; Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Student Motivation; Students; Synchronous Communication; Task analysis; Teacher Student Relationship; Time on Task

In this study, we developedan on-call-tutor system to facilitate peer-help activities. The system was implemented in a face-to-face heterogeneous classroom with 119 students from different departments who were not familiar with each other. Students learned Geographic Information System (GIS) in a co...