Summary A Look To The Future

Summary & A Look To The Future

The future of mentoring will involve a much broader and more intelligent use of the technologies available. There will, in particular, be much more use of video-conferencing through desktop PCs and miniature cameras. It seems likely that the majority of mentoring relationships will be hybrids of face-to-face in person, synchronous face-to-face remote, and asynchronous textual exchanges. The evidence, such as it is, suggests that this has great potential to enrich the dialogue between mentor and mentee. However, mentoring scheme co-ordinators will have to include the effective use of these technologies as an integral part of mentor and mentee training.