An online mentoring system for higher learning institutions
Date
2021
Authors
Patel, Tulshi Pareshkumar
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Strathmore University
Abstract
Mentoring is the process whereby an experienced person guides and supports a
younger or less experienced person in an educational institution. Mentoring in higher
learning institutions helps learners acclimate to new academic topics, increases
likelihood of academic support, and reduces weakness. The current practice used by
many higher learning institutions for example Strathmore University is that upon
joining a mentor is assigned to each student. The student then schedules a session and
has a meeting with the mentor. This hinders an effective mentoring process as students
lack information on mentoring, difficult to have a follow up on the mentoring sessions,
analysis and report on mentoring program.
These challenges can be overcome by developing an online mentoring system. The
system allows mentors and mentees to schedule meetings and set milestones that will
track the progress of the mentee to ensure confidentiality and provide reports on the
mentoring sessions.
The system is however not meant to completely get rid of face-to-face mentoring
sessions but to complement the face-to-face mentoring as in some instances people
would want to meet their mentor.
An object-oriented approach has been used to develop a system to improve the
mentoring process. The approach that has been used is the prototyping framework to
ensure the system was developed iteratively
Description
An information system project 2 proposal submitted to the Faculty of
Information Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award
of the bachelor’s degree in Business Information Technology of
Strathmore University