The Online-Tutorial in Distance Education offered by Centres for Distance Education at various conventional universities in Germany for students of the FernUniversität Hagen Ulrich Bernath, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Centre for Distance Education

Institutional setting Teaching by faculties of the FernUniversität Tutoring by study centres of the FernUniversität and by cooperating centres for distance education at conventional universities Hagen

Problems of distance Problem of distance in time Problem of distance in space

Our practice of face-to-face tutoring regular evening classes (reg) day schools on saturdays (sat) weekend seminars (wes) educational leaves (edl) reg sat edl wes

Problems of distance Problem of distance in space Problem of distance in time reg

Problems of distance Problem of distance in space Problem of distance in time reg edl

Problems of distance Problem of distance in space Problem of distance in time reg sat wes edl

Problems of distance Problem of distance in space Problem of distance in time reg sat wes edl vt

Online tutorials by university centres for distance education Lüneburg (since 1994) Oldenburg (since 1996) Hildesheim (since 1997) Hamburg (since 1998) Frankfurt (since 1998) Kaiserslautern (since 1998) Saarbrücken (since 1998) Karlsruhe (since 1998) Koblenz (since 1998) Brig (since 1996)

Conceptual considerations Low cost and easy access for students Preferably asynchronous communication Password protected study groups Instructional design of tutorials in all academic disciplines

Major strategic aspects Online and/or face-to-face tutorials Devision of labour and cooperation Professional development

Online and face-to-face tutorials Online tutorials are complementary and add to the existing setting of face-to-face tutorials reg sat edl wes vt

Online and face-to-face tutorials The weights of the different tutorial events will change reg sat edl wes vt

How to meet the larger numbers of students

Cooperation Study centers offer joint and coordinated online tutorials M MM

“The student comes first”...in face-to-face as well as in online settings...