Many courses still have face-to-face tutorials, but more and more of the tuition is moving online.
My Shakespeare tutor mourned the old days, but admitted that attendance at face-to-face tutorials seemed to be down.
That said, Nikki says the OUBS MBA is about to offer students the opportunity to skip face-to-face tutorials and conduct them online instead.
DVDs, books and ebooks, the OU's YouTube channel, online resources and forums – interspersed with occasional face-to-face tutorials at the OU's regional centres – now constitute some of the platforms exploited for communication and teaching.
You might plan to complete a couple of modules of a course that includes contact time with your tutor or fellow students, says MacKay, but then be sent overseas at short notice: repeatedly missing out on group study sessions or face-to-face tutorials clearly doesn't help any student's morale or ability to study productively.
The game continues... "The sun shines on anyone who's ever felt alone… The sun shines on anyone bullied by a friend…" The session has been organised by BeatBullying, a charity that offers face-to-face tutorials to small groups of 11- to 17-year-olds to teach preventative strategies and create a team of student mentors able to offer advice in the playground and online.
We observed that there were differences in terms of resorting to face-to-face tutorials to resolve ICT doubts, with a Bayes factor of 4.50.
Face-to-face tutorials with a team, reference doctor/nurse, in each health center.
Notwithstanding this, the mean score for students undertaking the online variant was slightly better than those taking the face-to-face variant in spite of their not having face-to-face tutorials with a statistics lecturer.
It was acknowledged that the recording of face-to-face tutorials in the classroom-based variant would not be feasible on this occasion, although it has been used in relation to other modules thus investigated.
