European E-tutors – inductive models for on-line lecturing in synchronous collaborative environments

As e-learning evolves and becomes more widespread there is a need to explore best practice and from it distill pedagogy for e-tutors. The eTUTOR project, has undertaken to explore variables in pan-European countries including: Ireland; France; Spain; Greece and the UK. Each partner is delivering on-line learning and building on existing literature and present practice to generate a set of guidelines for e-tutors. The project aims to explore multicultural, synchronous and collaborative situations (MCCS environments) and this paper will specifically examine the collaborative element of e-tutoring process. More...