Student and tutor perceptions of effective tutoring in distance education

Distance Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-441

  Jelfs, Anne ^a   Richardson, John T E ^a   Price, Linda ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beliefs about tutoring; Conceptions of tutoring; Good tutoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350379574     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587910903236551     Document Type: Article

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