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What Actually Happens in Tutorials?

Murgatroyd, Steve – Teaching at a Distance, 1980

From tape recordings of 30 tutorial sessions at the Open University it is concluded that the teacher's role is less than the ideal of facilitator of learning; there is great pressure from students for the teacher to instruct rather than discuss the course material. (MSE)

Descriptors: Extension Education, External Degree Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

The Student Special Support Scheme: A Report.

Thorpe, Mary – Teaching at a Distance, 1979

Tutors and tutor-counselors assist individual students in the Open University. The effects on student's tutors of providing resources to tutor-counselors to offer extra sessions for first-year students who appear to need additional help are reported. (JMF)

Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Attitudes, External Degree Programs, Higher Education