Students report medium-to-high dissatisfaction with tutor and consultant support at the UOC¶

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q2 i? Except in Arts and Humanities, negative evaluations of tutors and consultants roughly equal positive ones, exceeding 50% negative in two areas. → Rivera-Vargas 2021

Evidence¶

Rivera-Vargas 2021¶

Rivera-Vargas, P., Anderson, T., & Alonso Cano, C. (2021). Exploring students’ learning experience in online education: analysis and improvement proposals based on the case of a Spanish open learning university. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10045-0

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Questionnaire results (Table 5) on tutor and consultant performance; the article reports evaluations "equally split between positive and negative evaluations" outside Arts and Humanities, with negative sums exceeding 50% in Law/Political Science and Psychology/Education Sciences.

"we observe that except for “Arts and Humanities Studies” the results in general, are equally split between positive and negative evaluations."

Discussion¶

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