Towards E-Tutors Training in On-Line Collaborative Learning

ROSANNA COSTAGUTA; SILVIA SCHIAFFINO; PABLO SANTANA

Cartagena

Conferencia; EATIS 2016 - Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems; 2016

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) systems not only enable group learning regardless space and time where are located the group members, but also foster the development of leadership abilities. However, given that interactions that promote learning do not occur spontaneously, the participation of tutors is needed to encourage interactions between students and resolve group conflicts. Although the tasks of a teacher in a virtual environment are not an extension of their tasks in traditional classrooms, teachers tend to use in e-learning contexts the same practices they use in traditional education. Considering that the skills of an e-tutor in CSCL belong to the category of acquired skills, we propose to develop an application aiming at training e-tutors in these skills. In order to create a software application of this type we need to know firstly which is the work of a CSCL teacher, and secondly the automatic analysis techniques that allow recognition of skills that teachers have and skills that should be trained. For this reason we present in this article a review of the state of the art in areas of roles, activities and competences of teachers in the context of CSCL, as well as automatic techniques for analyzing collaborative interactions.