Reynolds Utilizes Skype For Peer Advising
JSRCC used the Summer 2011 registration menstruum to airplane pilot the Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) computer program – an first that allowed the College to develop iv students too provide them alongside laptops too headsets too then the students could provide online assistance to prospective students afterwards normal trouble concern hours. The College launched its “Skype alongside a PAL” campaign, encouraging those inwards take away of assistance to contact a College PAL via Skype, a costless online chat tool, inwards the evenings afterwards Student Success Centers were closed. For those novel to Skype, easy-to-use instructions were posted on the College website. The computer program was funded through a VCCS Chancellor’s Innovation Fund too was designed to growth educatee retention, success too support.
“PALs is essentially an online cistron of the College’s Peer Advisors,” explained QEP Assistant Coordinator Meg Foster. “It’s able to provide services to students afterwards hours too then they tin larn answers to their questions inwards the comfort of their ain home. And it is peculiarly attractive to our students too prospective students that are comfortable alongside technology.”
The College has agreed to back upward the PALs computer program for autumn registration. PALs volition move available for Fall 2011 registration via Skype starting fourth dimension July eleven (when early on plane registration begins). PALs volition conk on even out hours, Lord's Day through Wed each week, through the first off calendar week of classes.
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