How do you define success? Failure? Success can be seen as doing your best in learning and improving, or it can be viewed as winning because you are talented. Failure can be seen as a setback that is motivating, a wake-up call or it can be something that causes you to doubt your natural talent […]
As any student-success team can tell you, migrating from one learning management system to another can be a real pain. It’s expensive, time-consuming, and almost impossible to accomplish without involving everyone from IT, to instructional design, to individual faculty members. Worse still, between rebuilding your course templates, training instructors and staff on updated workflows, and […]
Educational buzz words come and go. Remember “the new math,” “whole language vs phonics,” and “emotional intelligence”? What exactly is “personalized” or “individualized” learning, and is this just another educational fad? “Learning is about biology,” to quote James Zull, Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry, Director of The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and […]
Writing can be a challenge, but luckily our tutor of the month, Nancy C., has been teaching English, ESL, and literature courses for over 20 years. Nancy has worked a variety of jobs in my life, but her favorite has always been teaching. In between teaching, Nancy also worked in senior services, wrote grants and public relations […]
Jake Ramsey, Director of Product at Tutor.com In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell argues that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a true expert in any field. By that standard, our tutors – who have logged more than five million hours helping students succeed in their toughest courses – are […]
Have you ever wondered what other Tutor.com partners are doing to generate excitement for the service, with both staff and students? We sat down with Derk Riechers, Director of the Online College at in South Carolina, to give you an inside look at his institution’s Tutor.com program. He discussed when the need for online tutoring […]
