Chris Douce

Communication and presentation skills is an important and essential element to doctoral training. The university help students to develop those skills by providing opportunities to enable students to share their work with others through events such as PhD student conferences.

It has been 20 years since the university published Supporting Open Learners: Reader, and the accompanying publication, Supporting Open Learners: Theoretical Reader for its tutors. These booklets offer practical guidance about many aspects of the role as a tutor.

This project captured and identified the practice of tutorial observations from two different perspectives: the perspective of the distance learning tutor, and the perspective of their manager or staff tutor.

Learning to program is a skill that some students struggle with.  TT284, Web Technologies, requires students to write code using a number of different programming languages: Javascript, PHP and Google AppInventor. Many students who take TT284 would have completed TU10