I attended a Teaching and Learning with Technology Committee Meeting (I’m a co-chair for the Norfolk campus) on Tuesday, July 11. The main topic was the college’s technology plan. The committee had been tasked with drafting the instructional side of the plan. I brought up the topic of SMARTHINKING and the committee members discussed it at length. The committees main concern was the low number of contact hours per student.
Our interim Vice President of Distributed Teaching and Learning Services, Dr. Yanyan Yong, said she would ask faculty to recruit students to print out their sessions for a qualitative analysis of SMARTHINKING. I offered to print out the peer reviews that the tutors had done for my ENG 3 students that summer and Dr. Yong expressed interest in seeing those as well. Committee members also agreed that student feedback isimportant—a technology plan that doesn’t address student support services is inadequate.
I’ve come across a number of online tutoring websites (e.g. tutor.com, homeworkhelp.com, tutoreasy.com, http://www.schooltrainer.com, etc.). Has anyone prepared a comparison of the various companies (pricing, quality, etc.)?
Comment by Ron Shasta — July 11, 2007 @ 2:15 pm