The Relationship between Tutoring Mode and Learners' Use of Help Tools in Distance Education

Bruno De Lievre; Christian Depover; Pierre Dillenbourg

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2006) pp. 97–129

This article presents an experimental study demonstrating how 120 learners use help tools in a virtual learning set-up. More specifically, several types of tutoring are investigated to find out the extent of the use of help tools in each. The...