Publish at July 24 2007 Updated April 26 2023
Distance learning is most often accompanied by the implementation of tutoring in order to ensure a certain social integration of students or at least to prevent the latter's feeling of abandonment and loneliness in the face of their course.
Student-to-student tutoring allows for pedagogical, but above all, relational support and at lower costs, considering the limited resources of most distance learning institutions.
The research report Inter-Student Tutoring presents the context for implementing such a device and, through extended activity theory, analyzes its contributions and limitations.
According to feedback from experiences, student tutoring seems to be an effective means of generating a social bond.
In addition, this type of tutoring brings a complementary dimension to the teacher-student relationship, a dimension that makes up for the relational shortcomings often observed in distance education and even includes a formative value for student tutors.
Download the research report: Interprofessional student tutoring: for a creation of the social link in learning by Aude Bertschy and Denis Gaste, .pdf format
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