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Louw, Ina – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Tutorials/discussion classes are seen as an essential part of the teaching mix in the natural sciences, because that is where problems can be solved and course content is applied. Learning support provided by teaching assistants may free up the lecturer to do research, but are these assistants sufficiently well trained and well informed? Do…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Teaching Assistants, Research Universities, Tutors
Yamato, Yoko; Zhang, Wei – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
Private supplementary tutoring became a widespread phenomenon in Japan during the 1960s. Since then, institutions providing tutoring known as "juku" have provided a wide range of services to supplement mainstream education. During decades of development, the shapes and functions of "juku" have changed in response to changes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, After School Education
du Buisson, Theuns – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Conducting undergraduate studies in the English language, while only a small minority of students speak English at home, poses many problems to learning in the South African context. This article explores how restrictive language policies may influence proper learning and impact negatively on the self-understanding of students. It also explores…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Multilingualism, Tutorial Programs, Undergraduate Study
Stockley, Denise; Balkwill, Laura-Lee; Hoessler, Carolyn – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
In 2008, Queen's University launched an online tutorial called CHRPP, the Course in Human Research Participant Protection, and published a paper about its purpose, design, and usability in Balkwill, Stevenson, Stockley, and Marlin (2009). CHRPP was originally created to raise awareness among research students about the federal policy regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Ethics, Research Administration
Peelo, Moira – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2013
This paper explores one practitioner's learning development work with PhD students in a changing university context in which managerialism and financial stringency have combined. It questions how learning development practitioners can maintain their professional goals while negotiating issues arising from managerialism, financial stringency,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Teaching Methods, College Administration, Governance
Smith, Julian; Groves, Mark; Bowd, Belinda; Barber, Alison – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This study examined the effectiveness of a Blended Learning (BL) environment designed to facilitate the learning of study skills with a large (over 200) and diverse undergraduate student cohort in a Higher Education (HE) institution in the UK. A BL environment was designed using the model provided by Kerres & De Witt (2003), and was also…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Blended Learning, Skill Development, Learning Strategies
Hogg, Linda; Yates, Anne – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
This formative evaluation within a graduate initial teacher education program sought to identify student teachers' perceptions of lecturer practice and its influence on their developing practice. Data collected from course and teaching evaluations and focus group interviews suggested that microstructural course elements--lectures, tutorials, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Course Organization, Student Teachers
Northcote, Maria – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper begins by acknowledging the established and powerful link between educational beliefs and the teaching and learning practices of teaches and students. Based on this belief-practice connection, the paper documents the findings of a study that investigated the beliefs of a group of higher education teachers and students, most of whom were…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Marlina, Roby – International Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Active participation in university tutorials seems to be commonly argued as one of the learning difficulties of non-English-speaking background (NESB) Asian students enrolled in Western English-speaking universities. These students are often portrayed as being passive in class and this is commonly attributed to their background culture. Using…
Descriptors: Asians, Learning Problems, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions
Tiew, Fidella – International Education Studies, 2010
The purpose of this project was to introduce peer and self assessment on tutorial class participation to a marketing unit at Curtin Sarawak. This assessment strategy was introduced with desire to improve class participation and increase student involvement in assessment. At the end of semester, a questionnaire was used to gather responses from a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Student Participation, Tutorial Programs
Zuhairi, Aminudin; Adnan, Irma; Thaib, Dina – Online Submission, 2007
This paper addresses the practice and experience of Universitas Terbuka (UT) in the provision of learning support services for students in a large-scale distance education system. The UT, which has a network of 37 regional offices and participating institutions, has challenges to provide and manage effective learning support system for more than…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Services, Institutional Mission
Nilvises, Pornchulee – 1990
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) is one of Thailand's two official open universities. STOU has no on-campus classes. Instead, it offers self-instructional packages in a distance education format and conducts optional tutorials in local study centers throughout Thailand. STOU's curriculum, which is designed to provide educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Green, Muriel – 2001
This document, which draws on the findings of a survey of further education (FE) colleges in the United Kingdom and case studies of 9 FE colleges, presents good practices for managers of tutoring programs and tutors. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the changing role of tutors in the post-16 sector and the importance of recruiting, training, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Case Studies
National Inst. of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester (England). – 1993
The objectives, curriculum, and role of higher education and key policy and practice issues were reassessed against the backdrop of recent and predicted demographic, economic, and political changes and trends in Great Britain. Special consideration was given to the fact that "mature" learners now constitute the majority of entrants into…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Change Strategies