a rough history

From the summit wiki:
The University of Iowa: We offer asynchronous e-mail tutoring. Students complete an online questionnaire, receive an automatically generated e-mail with their responses to the questionnaire, and reply to this e-mail with an attached draft. We read the whole draft, offer comments both in a letter and inserted into the text, and invite students to send subsequent drafts. An iteration of this same system has been in place since 2001, and it served us nicely early on when the volume of submissions was low. We have since outgrown it, and are in the late planning stages of our goal to build its replacement. We plan to keep the asynchronous, full text model, but we also hope to design the system in such a way that it encourages multiple submissions by the same author and of the same text. We see teaching opportunities in a well-designed online tutoring system that will benefit face-to-face tutoring as well. The idea of an online writing environment suggests new ways for the Writing Center to move beyond its walls. You can look at the old system and send me a draft of something you’re writing by visiting http://www.uiowa.edu/~writingc/emailTutorForm.htm.