Course approach
Inquiry, practice and feedback
All of the actions and interactions you engage in during this course are similar to those experienced by your students. The course is designed to give you the experience of being a distance learner and provide a safe environment in which you can practise your skills as a distance learning tutor.
Throughout this course we'll ask you to find, consider and critique examples of distance learning techniques and applications. We will ask you to practise these and sometimes we will ask you to give feedback directly to each other on your ideas or plans. Our intention is that the giving and receiving of feedback in this way will be supportive, constructive and ultimately - useful.
On the one hand, we'd like you to give feedback openly and freely to all course members, there is little worse as an online learner than posting up something you've been working on for hours or days only to receive no response at all to it. We expect that you will participate in the scheduled activities.
On the other hand, because of the limitations of communicating in a purely text based environment, more care and attention is needed when composing mail messages than in face to face conversation. It is important you abide by principles of good practice in working online (sometimes known as Netiquette). This is where we start in the 'Getting Started Activities'
