Tutoring@Colorado State University: Connecting students with opportunities for ongoing learning

Tutoring services on university campuses play an important role in increasing student retention rates and improving overall academic success. Despite this significance, tutoring on university campuses is often decentralized, leaving students on their own to locate tutors, support groups, and learning communities. In this session I will discuss an effort to build a drupal-based portal for tutoring at Colorado State University (CSU).

In this session I will discuss the development process including findings from work we conducted using student-based focus groups. I will discuss the status of the project to connect students to tutoring / learning communities (both on CSU's campus and beyond). I will also discuss our future ideas for using "nudge" analytics to identify significant tutoring opportunities based on student profiles and present these findings to students via a digital dashboard (a dashboard to be built using a Mahout recommender system).

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Status: 
Proposed
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Track: 
Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Experience level: 
Beginner