Online tutoring and mentoring

This paper is devoted to define tutoring in eLearning initiatives and to consider all the elements related to tutor’s activities and training. We will detail which are the skills that every tutor will have to own, and how these skills have to be present in his training; then, we will develop the roles that tutors usually play; finally, we will relate a case study given periodically at the University of Salamanca (Spain) in the form of an eLearning Lifelong learning course