MiLearn Online Tutorials began in 2000 as a provider of online math tutorials for high school students in Quebec & Ontario. We developed two online math courses for Grade 10 and 11 students – commonly known in Quebec as Math 436, Math 426 (Ontario Grade 10 math), and a college (CEGEP Statistics) course. These 3 courses were then translated into French.
Our project with the Cree School Board in Quebec illustrated how effective and efficient both from a learning and budget perspective, an online learning environment could become. It was at that time where the team decided we could use current technologies (remeber we started all this before wide spread broadband, streaming video or VoIP use – a bit trailblazing in e-learning we like to think!) to widen the reach to students requiring some interactive, just-in-time help.
In 2006, MiLearn moved into delivering live online tutoring with selected university student tutors- using collaborative web conferencing platform to students from Ontario to Nova Scotia, Canada.
Tutors from the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Ottawa and St. Francis Xavier University were collaborating online with numerous students. Synchronous learning- again- before wide spread use of Skype became the norm. The project lasted just over 2 years having achieved excellent results. Students saw their grades increase by an average of over 25% – validating the strength on peer to peer tutoring- and peer to peer help in an online environment.
During the past months we have evolved into a Web 2.0 platform, where students collaborate, blog, post, search, seek help and advice from their student peers. We call this our miLEARN LIVEblog
Since 2001 well over 3000 students have used our online tutorials, browsing through over 2000 pages of interactive material and over 500 hours of live tutoring sessions.
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