Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education

The purpose of this study was to explore non-thesis Master’s students’ perceptions and expectations of good tutors and advisors in distance education programmes. It also examined whether these perceptions and expectations are related to student characteristics including age, gender, university, prog...

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Autores principales:	Mehmet Kara, Gülfidan Can
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2019
Materias:	tutor advisor distance education graduate students’ perceptions graduate students’ expectations Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:08e8e9af66204161a707df957bce2aa92021-12-02T17:16:18ZMaster’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education 10.19173/irrodl.v20i2.36741492-3831https://doaj.org/article/08e8e9af66204161a707df957bce2aa92019-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3674https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The purpose of this study was to explore non-thesis Master’s students’ perceptions and expectations of good tutors and advisors in distance education programmes. It also examined whether these perceptions and expectations are related to student characteristics including age, gender, university, programme, semester, and previous online learning experience. The current study was conducted within the framework of Transactional Distance Theory. Using a mixed methods approach, a questionnaire was administered to 143 students in four programmes in two universities in Turkey and interviews were conducted with 11 of these students. Results showed that good tutors and advisors in distance education provide a stimulating student-centred learning environment, have a caring and individualised interaction and communication with students, and have subject expertise and basic technology skills. The results of this study will improve distance education tutors and advisors’ practices in supporting graduate students’ education and research. Mehmet KaraGülfidan CanAthabasca University Pressarticletutoradvisordistance educationgraduate students’ perceptionsgraduate students’ expectationsSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2019)
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description	The purpose of this study was to explore non-thesis Master’s students’ perceptions and expectations of good tutors and advisors in distance education programmes. It also examined whether these perceptions and expectations are related to student characteristics including age, gender, university, programme, semester, and previous online learning experience. The current study was conducted within the framework of Transactional Distance Theory. Using a mixed methods approach, a questionnaire was administered to 143 students in four programmes in two universities in Turkey and interviews were conducted with 11 of these students. Results showed that good tutors and advisors in distance education provide a stimulating student-centred learning environment, have a caring and individualised interaction and communication with students, and have subject expertise and basic technology skills. The results of this study will improve distance education tutors and advisors’ practices in supporting graduate students’ education and research.
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title	Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education
title_short	Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education
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title_fullStr	Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education
title_full_unstemmed	Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education
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Master’s Students’ Perceptions and Expectations of Good Tutors and Advisors in Distance Education

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