Student perceptions of the tutor's role in distance learning

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsKeith StevensonKeith Stevenson, Paul Sander and Paul Naylor work as part time Psychology tutors for the Open University UK East Midlands Region where they are part of a team which has developed a collaborative approach to tutoring. Whilst the assessment of tutorial presentation by students has always been a crucial element contributing to the team's teaching plan, it was accepted that traditional methods of asking students to assess the effectiveness of tutorial presentations were likely to be coloured by students’ prior expectations. The tutor team decided to address this issue and find out what kind of tutoring the students expected from their tutor during the course of a year's tuition.