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Direct linkMaria Townsend; Emma Champion; Gwendoline Berndt – Open Learning, 2025
Standard online tutorials at The Open University, based in the UK, are generally tutor-led with the tutor setting the agenda and content. This study investigated the inclusion of online student-led drop-in tutorials to support assessment on an OU level one module. The aims were to gauge the value to students of this style of tutorial, to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Open Education, Tutorial Programs, Computer Assisted Testing
Painter, Clare; Coffin, Caroline; Hewings, Ann – Distance Education, 2003
This paper describes a qualitative study of asynchronous electronic conferencing by three tutorial groups on the same postgraduate course ("Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide"), forming part of an MA in Applied Linguistics (via Distance Education) at the Open University, UK. The groups varied in the degree to which…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Educational Technology, Tutors, Open Universities
