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- Lia
When I first came to Australia, I had to learn the difference between lectures and tutorials. - Ramiro
Me too. Tutorials were a huge change for me. Tutorials have a lot more interaction and discussion between the teacher and the students. - Lia
Actually, you know it really depended on which subjects I was taking. In some I felt comfortable talking and asking questions but, oh, there were others... - Ramiro
It all depends on the faculty, course and how the tutor runs the tutorial. - Title at 0:51
- Learning in tutorials (0:56 - 1:28)
- Mami
(Japan) In my country, they don’t have tutorials, they only have lectures. I didn’t even know what tutorials meant. - Victor
(China) In Chinese universities, we don’t really have a class like tutorials. - Jerry
(China - Macau) I’m not really sure about tutorial class because I just graduated from high school last year. - Norika
(Japan) It was so confusing the first time. - Crystal
(China - Hong Kong) In Hong Kong, the tutorials are similar to QUT. - Clement
(New Caledonia) We have tutorials more in groups in Australia than in my country. - Banner at 1:28
- Expectations (1:28 - 3:02)
- Scott Leisemann
In our tutorial time for finance, students have got a set task to do, so they’re sitting at a computer. They’ve got a worksheet and they’re actually applying what’s taught during the lecture.
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It just allows them to focus on their own learning and work at their own pace, whereas in the lecture it’s all chalk and talk. - Karen Lupton
In my communication tutorials, the focus is for them to use those communication skills in class, so a good communication tutorial is one where all of the students come willing to communicate and participate. - Fiona Cleary
Often times we don’t have a lot of preparation beforehand. They’ll have semester long assignments, but the actual work, we’ll often do are exercises that we do in the class.
[After it’s compiled we then need to run it, and you’ve got a working program]. - Josie Healy
I’ll set it up at the beginning with some stimulus material. Twenty minutes, half an hour will be writing and then going home to redraft that writing. Then they come back the next tutorial and they do peer review.
[You are thinking about words that are idioms and to help you they are underlined. O.K.]
I might just allocate groups, um, and then I will allocate a person, a leader, and this person will then summarise for the whole group. - Banner at 3:02
- What happens in tutorials? (3:01 - 4:16)
- Crystal
(Business) In lectures, we just sit and take notes, but in tutorials, we solve the problems and ask the tutor, talk to the tutor and sometimes, we work in small groups. - Mami
(Creative Industries) What we do is really practical in tutorials. In multimedia class for example, we learn how to use certain computer programs, such as photoshop. - Norika
(Communications) We have to work on the website and we have to ask the tutor about our own projects. - Clement
(Information Technology) Completely different! We have, basically we run our programs in small groups and try to help each other and after if really we don’t know how to do that we ask teachers. - Norika
In tutorial, we can ask questions if we really want to know, but in lectures, we can’t ask because it’s so embarrassing to raise your hand and ask a question to the lecturer. - Mami
Tutorials are what students make, whereas lectures are what teachers make. So we talk more and we exchange our own ideas and opinions. It’s very good. It’s very challenging. - Banner at 4:18
- What makes tutorials effective? (4:18 - end)
- Banner at 4:28
- Preparation
- Karen Lupton
We expect students to come to class having done a homework task if you like, ready to talk about. - Fiona Cleary
If they haven’t done some preparation beforehand, they’re not going to get anywhere near the value out of a tutorial. - Josie Healy
I want them to have some informed opinion. I might ask them to go and find some information and then they bring that information to the tutorial to share with other people. - Banner at 4:51
- Discussion
- Norika
In tutorials, we have to say our opinion and exchange our opinion. - Mami
I was a bit shy to speak out in front of a lot of people, but tutorials gave me a lot of opportunities to speak out because there are only ten to twenty people. - Crystal
In tutorial, we have the opportunity to ask questions and have discussions with the tutor. - Banner at 5:10
- Helping each other
- Scott Leisemann
I like to see groups of two to three helping one another. - Victor
In tutorials, I really can ask somebody else about their understanding about my questions. - Banner at 5:19
- Making friends
- Mami
I can make closer friends in tutorials because in lecture theatres, there are so many people around but in tutorials, you see certain people every week, so you get to talk to them more often. - Lia
Everybody has a different experience in their tutorials. So it can be confusing unless you’re prepared to ask questions at the time. - Ramiro
Tutorials are your opportunity to discuss ideas and to practise your communication skills. Then you can begin to cross your own cultural bridge. - Lia
That’s very poetic Ramiro. - Ramiro
Thanks Lia. I thought so myself.
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