Robin Schmucker

TutorUp: What If Your Students Were Simulated? Training Tutors to Address Engagement Challenges in Online Learning

With the rise of online learning, many novice tutors lack experience engaging students remotely. We introduce TutorUp, a Large Language Model (LLM)-based system that enables novice tutors to practice engagement strategies with simulated students through scenario-based training. Based on a formative study involving two…