Learning Product Design|K-12|Use in class

Sample Course - Politeness in Tutoring

[The final product]

Cover of the “Politeness Strategies in Tutoring” course.

A screen from the course: an introduction card that sets up the polite-language question, with a Start button.

[About]

This course is a demo of my skills in using Articulate Storyline. When working as an instructional designer for PLUS (Personalized Learning Squared) at Carnegie Mellon University, I was approached by student tutors, as they experienced difficulties in promoting students’ independence during tutoring session. Students tend to rely on their guidance in learning, instead of acting with autonomy. I hence composed this course as method of encouraging student tutors’ to strategically employ negative politeness in their tutoring sessions, a research-backed method of promoting students autonomy.

[Mini-Course for Politeness Strategies in Tutoring]