| Most distance education institutions organize occasional meetings for students to
interact face-to-face with instructors and other students. Besides helping understand
content, many students find the social support of such tutorials to be of great benefit,
particularly when they are new to distance learning. Instructors must be trained how to
conduct tutorial groups. It is important that they focus principally on the learners, not
the content and know ways of clarifying and elaborating on the materials designed and
delivered by the distance teaching institution. Their job is not to replace the content,
but to help the effort of individual students to learn it in their different ways.
- More resources on tutorial groups
Zimbabwe Division of the Rapid Results College Worldwide. (no date, collected in
1999) Information for Guidance of Tutors.
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