Evaluating feedback for e-learning: centralised tutors (EFFECT)

Description

Evaluating feedback for e-learning: centralised tutors or EFFECT was set up to evaluate TQFE-Tutor, an innovative communications and tutoring system set up in the academic year 2010/11 and in its second full year of use in the current academic session (2011/12). The system comprises a blog and email and Twitter accounts, all badged ‘TQFE-Tutor’. All programme communications between academic tutors, administrators, participants and associate staff take place via the TQFE-Tutor utilities. The academics’ individual institutional email accounts are not utilised at all for programme business. TQFE-Tutor is utilised on the Teaching Qualification Further Education (TQFE) programme, a professional development course for in-service lecturers in the college sector. In addition to evaluating TQFE-Tutor, the EFFECT project was intended to consider the move to paperless assignment submission which was introduced on the TQFE programme at the same time.

Period	30 Jun 2012
Degree of Recognition	Regional