Student's use of tutorial support at OUHK

The aim of this project is to contribute to theoretical and practical knowledge relating to the ways in which OUHK students who have different preferred styles of learning use tutorial support systems.

The project will be conducted in two phases.  In the first phase the support structures currently used in OUHK courses will be identified, for example face-to-face tutorial, telephone tutorials, recorded voice-mail answers to FAQs, bulletin boards, electronic discussion groups for students (with input from tutor), e-mail discussion between students, Web pages that include discussion fields, and on-line conferencing. Appropriate data collection instruments will be identified and/or developed.

In the second phase, instruments will be administered to identify the students’ preferred styles of learning and their use of various support systems.  Their attitudes, feelings and beliefs about the provisions will be monitored by questionnaire and interview.