Keeping in touch
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Tutors commonly keep in touch with their groups of students by posting news and notices, or snippets of information. There is no expectation that students will engage in lengthy debate, but it is important that they at least read the postings: this function keeps the group alive and in touch.
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Press the Edit button, type blearn for the password and get typing.
Some months ago several of my MBA students were unable to attend our initial F2F (face to face) tutorial. Decided to post a little movie for them to make the PPT slides more interesting, see url below:
We training many of our clients using this software so i thought it would be a good idea - got great feedback from my students.
Something that I did for one of my courses was make up a list of frequently asked questions, culled from emails and questions in previous years' courses. I use these in my tutor group forum, by drip-feeding them in, a few questions every few weeks. I send round a group email when I post the questions, reminding everyone that the forum is there for discussion and telling them there are new FAQs there. It's a way of getting them to log in and read the messages every now and then, and helps for keeping in touch - because they have an incentive to visit. (Anne Campbell, OU tutor)
I think you must have introduced this idea to me Anne. I have a similar thing TMAtips I call it. I also send out a general feedback sheet on each TMA after everyone has submitted. Like you I post it on the TG forum then email students to say it has been posted, I also note it as a resource on my PT3.
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