Online Peer Tutoring (OPT)
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Date
2022
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
Pakistan's education system lacks in some areas such as after-class assistance for students as counselling hours of teachers aren’t enough given the number of students having issues with their concepts/studies. We need to look for a solution that would help in solving this problem and bring some relief to students and teachers both. The idea is to develop an interactive online tutoring portal by students for students which would be discussion based. Normal y most university students don’t get their concepts clear in class due to many different reasons and lack in understanding in core areas. The problem here is lack of help due to limited teacher availability for one to one counselling sessions as it’s not possible to cater al students in the limited time slots. Here is where our idea comes in. A dedicated discussion based learning portal with excelling students being online tutors for
other students who need help in different areas. The solution would be a request based system with students having the option to post requests for the needed topic/concept. The expected results of this system would be that after the requests are posted a list of tutors would have the option to view and apply on these requests and open a discussion. Online sessions would be conducted between the student and tutor to ensure the learning
process. The tutors would be ranked by the students with each session they deliver to promote a healthy competition in the system.