eTutoring offers online academic support

With greater adoption of online and blended courses at Ohio’s higher education institutions, Web-based student services are important strategic tools and services to assist with the recruitment and retention of students. Online tutoring is a critical e-student service for higher education institutions as they better serve their students. Collaborating with Ohio’s higher educational community to ensure student success is central to OLN’s mission. Fifteen public two-year and four-year colleges created the Ohio eTutoring Collaborative in late 2009 with the hopes of saving money while providing more tutoring services for their students. More than 70,000 Ohio college students have access to free online tutoring in math, calculus, statistics and writing. Synchronous sessions with math tutors are offered every day of the week from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. Students can post eQuestions or they can enter an eChat room to work with a tutor directly utilizing video, audio, eChat (instant messaging-like dialogue), and a whiteboard. Papers can be uploaded for an asynchronous review by a writing tutor. Trained tutors answer questions, point to areas of concern, and provide “next steps” in the writing process. If your institution is interested in this statewide-initiative, we welcome your inquiry. Please contact Karen Boyd, eTutoring Program Coordinator, 614-485-6524, kboyd@oln.org.  

Quality Matters in Ohio

Quality Matters (QM) offers a faculty-centered peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components and an array of accompanying professional development resources. For more information or to join the Ohio Quality Matters Consortium click here.  

OLN Statewide Smarthinking Initiative:

Twenty-six institutions participate in the OLN / Smarthinking statewide initiative in order to further promote student success and retention. Participating institutions have realized more than $90,000 in cost savings, with more than 9,400 students having used the services.
For more about the statewide initiative, contact Karen Boyd 

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