2  Helping your students to learn

Your role as a blended learning tutor is to be a facilitator, providing support and encouragement, information and guidance for students. You will be helping your students develop their abilities and gain confidence as learners.

As a blended learning tutor you can help your students to learn in a number of ways. For example:

  • engaging in dialogue with each student to ensure she has a clear understanding of the learning outcomes for each Module in the programme
  • being clear about what learning outcomes are being assessed in each of your students’ written assignments
  • providing feedback on how well the learning outcomes have been achieved, together with manageable advice on how to improve, and how to negotiate the next goal
  • requiring that your students submit some form of self-assessment and responding to that self-assessment
  • talking to students who do not submit assignments by the deadline and planning with them how they might catch up with work they have missed
  • helping students to integrate their blended learning with the skills they are taught in their practical training.

1.4  Learning Agreement between you and your students

2.1  Study Diaries