| Policy Area
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Policy Issues/Objectives
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Relevance to collaboration and/or OER
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| Tutoring and supporting students
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- Tutor role and tasks
- Tutor skills
- Recruiting tutors
- Induction and training tutors
- Monitoring tutors
- Marking and feedback
- Face-to-face, telephone, online tutoring
- Student counselling
- Student guides and providing information to students
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- The sharing of research, guidelines, process documents and quality criteria can help the institution make informed decisions about suitable models for tutoring and supporting its DE/offcampus students.
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| Recruiting and enrolling students
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- Making course information available
- Marketing
- Diagnostic testing of potential students
- Briefing students about ODL
- Enrolment
- Fee payment systems
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- The sharing of research, guidelines, process documents and quality criteria can help the institution make informed decisions about suitable models for recruiting and enrolling DE students.
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| Assessing students
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- Methods to be used (e.g. exams, projects, thesis and portfolio)
- Summative or formative
- Methods of submission and giving feedback (e.g. online or by paper correspondence)
- Recording marks and student progress
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- The sharing of research, guidelines, process documents and quality criteria can help the institution make informed decisions about suitable models for assessing DE students.
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