Tutor Messaging and Its Effectiveness in Encouraging Student Participation on Computer Conferences
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Abstract
Following student requests for more frequent tutor intervention in academic computer conferences, research was conducted to discover whether different patterns of tutor intervention did in fact result in greater student activity, measured both by the number of student contributions and by instances of dialogue between tutor and student. The conclusion reached was that certain tutor behaviour could encourage participation where it might otherwise not take place, but that it was not a necessary precursor to student activity in all circumstances. En reponse aux demandes des etudiants souhaitant une intervention plus frequente des tuteurs aux teleconferences informatisees, une recherche a ete effectuee afin de determiner si divers modeles d'interventions des tuteurs encourageaient effectivement la participation etudiante. Le niveau de participation a ete evalue en fonction du nombre de contributions des etudiants et d'echanges entre tuteur et etudiants. Les conclusions ont revele que certains comportements de la part des tuteurs pouvaient en effet encourager la participation des etudiants, qui autrement ne prendraient pas part au dialogue, mais ce changement de comportement de la part du tuteur n'etait toutefois pas l'unique facteur.
