Online Mentoring: Strategies and Challenges

Swapna Kumar
University of Florida, United States of America
swapnakumar@coe.ufl.edu
Melissa Johnson
University of Florida, United States of America
mjohnson@honors.ufl.edu
Catherine Coe
University of Florida, United States of America
catherine.coe@coe.ufl.edu

Abstract

The increase in online graduate programs and the mentoring of students at a distance have led to the need to identify the challenges faced by online mentees and successful strategies used by online mentors in online mentoring. This research describes strategies and challenges in the online mentoring of dissertations in a doctoral program that was offered largely online. Data from semi-structured interviews with 19 mentees who graduated and five mentors provided insight into the strategies used by mentors, mentees and small groups and the challenges faced during the process of online mentoring.

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