Paper Info
Title
Videotutoring, non-verbal communication and initial teacher training
Abstract
Telematics has the potential to transform Higher Education through creating a distributed community of tutors and students. Videotutoring is central to telematics. enabling personal tutoring to occur at a distance. Within the context of a post-graduate teacher training course, videotutoring was used to tutor two students during the first six weeks of their first full-time school placement. Both ends of the videosignal were recorded. Analysis of the tapes used a protocol based upon research into non-verbal communication (NVC), NVC is as important as verbal communication in the tutorial process. Findings suggest that the interaction of participants mediated through the screen was significantly different from face-to-face communication in relation to the two-dimensional image of the screen and the "viewing frame" effect of the physical boundaries of the image, The viewing frame literally served as the proscenium arch of a theatre, Two-dimensionality and the viewing frame effect emphasised both the positive and negative elements in inter-personal communication as represented in Argyle's social skills and Goffman's theatrical models. The conclusion is that videotutoring can potentially be a more effective form of tutoring than face-to-face interaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1111/1467-8535.00144
BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Educational technology,TUTOR,Interpersonal communication,Distance education,Psychology,Nonverbal communication,Social skills,Pedagogy,Teacher education,Telematics
Journal
31.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2.0
0007-1013
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jon Nichol100.34
Kate Watson281.92