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Student and tutor perspectives of on‐line moderation

Gary Packham, Paul Jones Orcid Logo, Brychan Thomas, Christopher Miller

Education + Training, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 241 - 251

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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The on‐line tutor or e‐moderator faces a diversity of new challenges, including instructional design, organisation, direct instruction and facilitating discourse. This study aims to contrast the views of students and tutors regarding what factors constitute effective e‐moderation in order to identif...

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ISSN: 0040-0912
Published: Emerald Publishing Ltd 2006
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