scholarly journals “We Overwhelm Them with Hope”: How Online Mentors Can Support Online Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camey L. Andersen ◽  
Richard E. West
Keyword(s):  
Nontraditional Students ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Role Assumption ◽  
Student Goal Setting ◽  
Education Initiative

This survey research study analyzed responses from 143 mentors from around the world participating in a global higher education initiative. Results confirmed the effectiveness of four mentoring domains identified in the literature, reporting the most success from providing emotional and psychological support for students. This article provides mentoring strategies including student goal setting, identifies characteristics of an online role model, and shows the importance of online mentors’ confidence in students gaining technology skills. The study has additionally contributed to the literature supporting (a) benefits of online mentoring for nontraditional students, (b) influence of technology on mentoring challenges, and (c) role assumption in online mentoring. Additionally, the study provided a literature review of the background of online mentoring and mentoring practices, the benefits and challenges of online mentoring, and lessons learned from research. This work presents a comprehensive understanding of online mentoring, providing support for mentors seeking to improve their performance as well as recommendations for creating mentoring programs to improve organizations.

scholarly journals Improving Mentoring in Higher Education in Undergraduate Education and Exploring Implications for Online Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (64) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camey L. Andersen ◽  
Richard E. West
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Mentor Training ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Higher Education Leaders ◽  
Education Academic

This article is a literature review of mentoring and higher education academic literature from 2008-2018. The review analyzed what makes an effective mentor and what are the implications of practice for those strategies. This article is for higher education leaders, mentoring programs, and mentors who want to improve their traditional and online mentoring programs and mentoring practices. After narrowing the search terms, the researcher searched EBSCO and ERIC databases and this search produced a combined total of 256 results. These articles were further narrowed to 34 articles that met the keyword search and exclusion criteria. The remaining articles are the focus of the literature review analysis for mentoring and higher education literature.             The review produced three major themes of impact of mentoring, role of mentor, and mentoring programs, as well as implications for practice for each theme. The researcher further examined the themes in detail and provided information about retention, persistence, long-term benefits of mentoring, student interaction, student support, role models, types of mentoring programs, platforms for mentoring, and mentor training. The review concludes with suggestions for further research, including recommendations for mentor training and online mentoring.

Benefits and Characteristics of Mentoring Students and Young Professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal Mills
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Workplace Retention

Abstract Mentoring has long been believed to be an effective means of developing students' clinical, research, and teaching skills to become competent professionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has developed two online mentoring programs, Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P. 1:1) and Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC), to aid in the development of students. This paper provides a review of the literature on mentoring and compares and contrasts mentoring/mentors with clinical supervision/preceptors. Characteristics of effective mentors and mentees are offered. Additionally, the benefits of clinical mentoring such as, teambuilding in the workplace, retention of new staff, leadership development, and improved job satisfaction are discussed.

Understanding the Links between Mentoring and Self-Efficacy in the New Generation of Women STEM Scholars

2010 ◽  
pp. 97-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yost ◽  
Donna M. Handley ◽  
Shelia R. Cotten ◽  
Vicki Winstead
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
National Study ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Using Data ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

American colleges and universities are in need of innovative approaches to recruit and retain the upcoming generation of new faculty members. Specifically within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields, there is an additional need to focus on meeting the needs of women in order to begin to address gender inequity within STEM. This chapter examines the impact of mentoring on self-efficacy for female graduate students and post doctoral fellows in STEM fields. Using data from a national study of selected U.S. academic institutions, recommendations are made in order to enhance mentoring practices that will reduce the barriers women face within STEM fields. Quality mentoring programs represent a viable way to enhance institutional change that may result in increased numbers of women in STEM fields.

Bridging the 15 Million Person Mentoring Gap

2010 ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Caroline Kim Oh ◽  
Theresa Stroisch
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Youth Mentoring ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Technology Platform ◽  
New Class ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Isolated Communities ◽  
E Mail

This chapter introduces the history and evolution of iMentor, a NYC-based youth mentoring organization that pioneered the use of guided e-mail communication to enhance the in-person youth mentoring model, and continues to leverage its model and lessons learned to help other groups improve or start up their own mentoring programs. It illustrates how the organization has effectively used technology to add flexibility and structure in its NYC Mentoring Program, engaging a new “class” of program participants: “busy” professionals as mentors and mentees from some of the most economically and geographically isolated communities. It also describes how the organization transformed itself to meet a national demand for its programming by developing and licensing its own mentoring technology platform, iMentor Interactive. The author hopes that by reviewing the experience of iMentor, more mentoring and youth organizations at- large would embrace a thoughtful infusion of technology to positively impact the lives of people they serve. The author, however, strongly believes that the sector must be diligent about adhering to many of the best practices of a good, in-person mentoring program, including screening and monitoring of program participants, providing structure and ongoing assistance.

Strategies for Fostering a Quality Physical Activity-Based Mentoring Program for Female Youth: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Corliss Bean ◽  
Tanya Forneris
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Program Leaders ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Quality Program ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Future Work

The current case outlines practical strategies used by youth leaders to implement a female-only physical activity-based mentoring program. This program was selected as the case for the current paper as it scored the highest on program quality out of 26 different sport and physical activity-based youth programs within a larger project. The two program leaders were interviewed to understand what practical strategies they used to foster a high-quality program within this context. The leaders discussed how they: (a) focused on developing individualized relationships with youth, (b) balanced structure with flexibility to allow for youth voice, (c) intentionally integrated life skills, and (d) combined engaging activities with downtime to differentiate the program from school. This case provides a practical account of how front-line workers in youth mentoring programs, specifically within sport and physical activity contexts, can deliver a quality program. Reflection on areas for future work within the field of sport psychology, including ways to bridge the gap between research and practice and the need to develop communities of practice for youth programmers, are presented.

scholarly journals A Case Study on the University Freshman Adaptation Program Using an Online Mentoring Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Yeonjoo Lee ◽  
Kyoungsoo Lim
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
College Life ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

This study is a case study that presents the results of developing and operating online mentoring programs to more effectively help freshmen adapt to college life amid the spread of COVID-19. Mentoring has traditionally been recognized as a program that contributes to individual academic ability and psycho-social growth. Against this background, the results of developing and operating online mentoring programs for 1,654 freshmen were presented as examples. As a result of the operation of this mentoring program, the latter helped freshmen solve some of the challenges they faced, not only from having to change their academic environment, but from having to form new relationships as well. Senior mentoring also confirmed that such a program is able to reduce the social gap felt by freshmen regarding their campus life during the COVID-19 situation by motivating them to study more, and by encouraging them to form senior-junior IRL (in real life) relationships. This study is significant in that it presents specific examples and techniques to improve the performance of online mentoring programs. Also, in order to effectively operate online mentoring programs, we proposed to systematically implement the selection and training of mentors, to structure mentoring activities, to monitor the program through a communication system, and to engage in performance sharing.

scholarly journals Enhancing Mentoring in Palliative Care: An Evidence Based Mentoring Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 238212052095764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna ◽  
Lorraine Hui En Tan ◽  
Yun Ting Ong ◽  
Kuang Teck Tay ◽  
Jia Min Hee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Evidenced Based ◽  
Host Organization ◽  
Structured Approach

Background: Growing concerns over ethical issues in mentoring in medicine and surgery have hindered efforts to reinitiate mentoring for Palliative Care (PC) physicians following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Ranging from the misappropriation of mentee’s work to bullying, ethical issues in mentoring are attributed to poor understanding and structuring of mentoring programs, underlining the need for a consistent approach to mentoring practices. Methods: Given diverse practices across different settings and the employ of various methodologies, a novel approach to narrative reviews (NR)s is proposed to summarize, interpret, and critique prevailing data on novice mentoring. To overcome prevailing concerns surrounding the reproducibility and transparency of narrative reviews, the Systematic Evidenced Based Approach (SEBA) adopts a structured approach to searching and summarizing the included articles and employed concurrent content and thematic analysis that was overseen by a team of experts. Results: A total of 18 915 abstracts were reviewed, 62 full text articles evaluated and 41 articles included. Ten themes/categories were ascertained identified including Nature; Stakeholders; Relationship; Approach; Environment; Benefits; Barriers; Assessments; Theories and Definitions. Conclusion: By compiling and scrutinizing prevailing practice it is possible to appreciate the notion of the mentoring ecosystem which sees each mentee, mentor, and host organization brings with them their own microenvironment that contains their respective goals, abilities, and contextual considerations. Built around competency based mentoring stages, it is possible to advance a flexible yet consistent novice mentoring framework.

Mentoring the Next Generation

2012 ◽  
pp. 1665-1675
Author(s):  
Kate Schrauth ◽  
Elie Losleben
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Adult Mentors

With the high school dropout rate in the United States at epidemic levels and the proportion of guidance counselors decreasing, mentoring programs are an increasingly effective way to reach young people with the college and career guidance they need. icouldbe.org’s online mentoring programs reach young people who do not have access to quality educational resources, using a dynamic virtual learning environment to connect them to mentors who offer practical and individualized advice, information and expertise. The organization’s award-winning program is grounded on an evidence-based curriculum that is student-paced and student-led, placing young people at the center of a community of classroom teachers and adult mentors invested in the their futures. icouldbe.org puts child safety first and monitors mentor-mentee relationships in a controlled and accountable environment. Evidence indicates that icouldbe.org’s e-mentoring program has many of the benefits of face-to-face mentoring--an exciting find as educators turn to mentoring as a classroom intervention.

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