Abstract

Online tuition is a practice—practised by this writer—in which students form tutorial relationships with a teacher, and in some models with each other, by the modes of email, Web-mediated file exchange and asynchronous computer conferencing (the construction of multiple threads of conversation and dialogue, as in Web chat rooms). It may centrally revolve around an exchange of assignments and comments. It is quite different from simply referring students to the information and activities on various Web-sites. Centrally, tuition is conducted here in personal interaction through the written word.