Examining synchronous tutoring in a virtual world
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Abstract
The role of the tutor within a virtual community assumes specific features. First of all, because the concept of community fosters certain processes, and second of all technical features of the virtual environments in which the community lives are taken in account. The community assumes as its central focus group organization and sharing common goals (Brown and Campione, 1990; Lave and Wenger, 1991). The context-situated learning is relevant and connected to the idea of "distributed" knowledge (Salomon, 1993). According to this perspective, the tutor should push participants towards a more central participation, should fosters the social interaction, and should support the "emigration" of the knowledge from one source and its "appropriation" by the others. This paper explores the tutors' on-line role in a learning environment called Euroland.
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