Online Mentoring

Hi my name is John Proctor and I am a lecturer at a College in Northampton shire UK. For about three years I have been trying to develop a way of delivering the Higher national in computing (Part time) on line using techniques such as email, chat room, message and board, all where successful to some extent but the biggest problem that I could see is that the approach taken by most forms of online learning, was to use websites that taught them selves so as to save money, but the drop out rate was incredible something like 70% of lost students. So how I approached this problem is to use existing students and try and measure and quantify criticism. So before each lesson (usually the day before) I would send out an email which had the notes required along with any refere View the rest of this article