There has been some promising research about remote mentoring. The study I read was grad students in History mentoring high school students to do projects on local history. The place I've seen it brought to some sort of scale is an organization called iMentor in NYC. Again high school students, but I think we can learn from their implementation: <a href="http://www.imentor.org/imentor_interactive/product_demo.php">http://www.imentor.org/imentor_interactive/product_demo.php</a> I'm bringing it up now because the GPA school has access to tutoring/mentoring through Harvard because Harvard is building a new facility in the school's neighborhood (Allston) and its part of Harvard's community outreach program for the neighborhood. Another part of the program is apparently a computer lab that Allston residents can use. I also think it relates a bit to the students teaching students use case mentioned today. One of the winning plans at Harvard's educational business idea contest was an idea for a program that paid low performing high school students to tutor younger students. They said they can pair up a teen reading at a third grade level with an elementary school kid reading at a 1st grade level and see both radically improve reading skills. I think one of the big potentials of computers have the potential of making one-on-one tutoring and mentoring practical, scalable, convenient and affordable. Does anyone have examples of computer based tutoring/mentoring via computers or mixed that have research results? -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax