upporting small groups of learners in asynchronous e-learning environments : Tutoring modalities and tutor's models

This experimental research aims at studying the effects of different modalities of tutor’s online interventions (MiT) on the learning outcomes of one hundred students involved in a cooperative learning setting (in groups of three). These modalities were elaborated by considering the dimensions of intervention which participate in tutorial accompaniment i.e. on a pedagogical (P), socio-emotional (S) and organizational (O) level. In addition to these three MiT focusing in turn on the specific dimension, S, O or P, two further non-specific modes of intervention were inserted as reference modalities: one reactive MiT and one proactive MiT. Since the results have indicated a contrasting impact of the different modalities of interventions, we shall attempt to determine their specificity as well as to understand the idiosyncratic models of intervention of each tutor