Building the Case for Online Tutoring
Posted by Jessie Bourneuf on Wed, Oct 20, 2010 @ 01:48 PM
Over the summer, I heard from a number of Academic Support Center administrators who recognize the need to offer online tutoring to supplement their walk-in centers. From “I need to help my students in Iraq,” to “my students just don’t have the time to come in during our regular hours,” students live increasingly non-traditional lives. Many have to work real jobs while getting their education. Others have family constraints on their time. And, yes, quite a few have been shipped to the battlefield.
In general, campus administrators understand the changing composition of their student body, but have a hard time understanding how to make sense of the dollars and cents proposition of expanding tutoring by going online. I would like to share with you a study sponsored by the Houston Community College System, an AskOnline customer, demonstrating the academic successes for those students who participated in HCCS’s online tutoring program. Such successes breed improved retention. And from retention, the dollars and cents proposition comes into perspective. It is far cheaper to retain the students you have than to recruit new ones to fill the class.
If you are interested in reading this study, just click this link. We would be happy to discuss how going online could work for you.
Sincerely,
Jessie Bourneuf, President
AskOnline, Inc.