The roles of an online tutor differ from a traditional face-to-face teacher. An online tutor takes on roles related to instructional design, environment design, and technical support. They deliver information online and facilitate communication to develop a sense of community. An online tutor also designs activities and mediates information while continuing to evaluate students.

1. How is the role of the online tutor
different from that of the F2F
teacher?
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Ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje

2. Roles of the F2F traditional teacher:
Syllabus design
•Content choice
(competences,
objectives,
information,
evaluation
strategies and
criteria, etc.).
•Alignment to
educational
rulings.
Information
delivery
•Material design.
•Lecturing.
•Documentary
references.
Activity design
•Class activity
design.
•Independent
work guidance.
•Interactions and
class dynamics
planning.
Information
mediation
•Modelling.
•Clarification of
concepts.
•Exemplification.
Evaluation
•Definition of
standards.
•Application of
standards.
•Definition of
methodologies.

3. How do these roles switch in online education?
Syllabus design
Instructional designer
Environment design
Online tutor
Information
delivery
Activity
design
Information
mediation
Evaluation

4. What other functions emerge?
Instructional designer
Environment
designer
Online tutor
Syllabus design
Information
delivery
Activity
design
Information
mediation
Evaluation
Information
delivery
Graphic design
Technical support
Environment administration
Evaluation
Communication facilitator
Sense of community
developer