“I am part of a team that run a four week course in how to be an online tutor. This course is designed to give our tutors the theory, research and practical experience of being both an online tutor and a student, to help them support their own distance learners. However, one of the questions we always get asked is how do you keep distance learners actively engaged? We ask it of ourselves frequently because of the lowering enthuasism of our tutors as the course goes on, and external pressures impact on their time. So any focus on solving this riddle would be welcome!”
We all agreed that this would be suitable considering the aims of this unit. After a short discussion to consider the issues raised we created the following LO's,
On successful completion of Unit 4, the participants will be able to:
LO1: Understand how to keep a tutor engaged and active as the online course goes on
LO2: Evaluate how to keep the students engaged in an online course
LO3: Create a plan how to support students during an online course
We have acknowledged that creating LO's requires some discussion and there may be a number of drafts before finally agreeing. This is important to ensure that the LO's direct us toward achieving our aims.
We have an additional time restraint for this unit as one of our group is taking time out so we agreed to have our LO's and roles sorted quickly.
Lars created our shared learning space in google drive. This seems to have become our preferred option. It is easily accessed and user friendly in terms of viewing, sharing and editing shared documents. I particularly like that multiple authors can edit documents in real time and changes are automatically saved by the software.
For this unit it is my role to collate and present findings for feedback. After doing some preliminary reading Neil suggested that 'top tips' might be appropriate and we agreed that this seemed to be how our work was coming together.
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