COMPETENCES' EVALUATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-LEARNING TUTORS

This article reports the initial findings of a research project, "Curricular design for competences and evaluation criteria for the development of e-learning tutors." The results obtained by our research project in 2005-2007, "Components of the socioconstructivist pedagogical design, interaction and tutorials and impact on academic achievement in distance learning," are taken as basic data for the present study. This background permits us to inquire about the incidence of components and the interaction between tutorials, especially their frequency and communication quality, and students' academic achievements and satisfaction. The report includes analysis of two equivalent courses for the technical degree in Cultural Management and the Virtual Campus technological didactic format of discussion forums developments without controlled tutorials. These results are our first step toward defining competencies of on-line tutors.