RUME 26
2024
Omaha, Nebraska
Online Mathematics Tutoring: Where Did We Come From; Where Did We Go?
Page: 773
Online mathematics tutoring has become a fixture of the educational landscape in higher education. Using Lepper and Woolverton’s (2002) INSPIRE model for effective in-person mathematics tutoring as a basis, we developed a codebook to analyze online tutoring, modifying existing codes to reflect how they manifest in the online environment and augmenting our codebook with behaviors that were not present in the in-person environment. We give a description of the current state of online mathematics tutoring and identify methods used by online tutors to actively engage students in the learning process. In addition to our results, we include a brief description of some challenges we faced as researchers when engaging with research on online tutoring and the solutions we reached.