TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter presents the learning experience of a tutor at a UK university when undertaking a part-time, online degree in Health and Social Care over a seven-year period. Retrospective reflection and sociological theory are applied as methodologies to identify several key challenges faced by mature, widening participation students, involving identity, literacy, workload and assessment. The chapter suggests how an awareness of these issues helps one to empathise more effectively with mature students, the better to promote success and retention. It is suggested that other tutors stand to benefit from engaging in this type of online learning experience to further their own empathy with mature students.
SN  - 978-1-78743-836-1, 978-1-78754-110-8/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181015
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181015
AU  - Sharpling Gerard
AU  - Murray Neil
ED  - Stuart Billingham
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - A Teacher’s Experience of the Transformative Pedagogic Effect of Part-Time Degree Study
T2  - Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?
T3  - Great Debates in Higher Education
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 191
EP  - 205
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -