1  Support for blended learning students

Your role as a blended learning tutor is to facilitate the students’ learning by providing support and encouragement, information and guidance, and prompting your students to develop their abilities.

In other words you are not your students’ teacher – your role is help your students to:

  • manage their learning experience
  • keep on schedule
  • submit assignments on time
  • feel positive about their learning
  • encourage them when they feel they are falling behind, and
  • explain when they do not understand something.

Crucial aspects of your role are motivation, creating mutual respect and providing an environment where your students feel confident that they can talk to you (and with each other) about their learning and any difficulties they are experiencing.

The role of the blended learning tutor

1.1  Motivation