There is a wealth of literature that describes the purposes of providing feedback as part of the learning process in higher and professional education. I’m going to distil this voluminous research and scholarship into four key purposes. Firstly, feedback for
Paper: Rethinking personal tutoring systems, the need to build on a foundation of epistemological beliefs.
Newly uploaded, here is the final paper that was previewed in blog postings during December 2014. Atkinson, S. P. (2014) Rethinking personal tutoring systems: the need to build on a foundation of epistemological beliefs. BPP University Working Papers. London: BPP University. My
Starting with Epistemological Foundations
(Extracted for a Draft Working paper) Distributed institutions face an increasing challenge to be able to afford, or deliver efficiently, the central services to meet diverse student needs. Changing contexts, notably the move towards the notion of the lifelong learner,