Peer Observation For Online Distance Learning Tutors: Creating The Conditions For Effective Peer Exchange

Richard Walker

doi:10.1515/eurodl-2015-0003

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Peer Observation For Online Distance Learning Tutors: Creating The Conditions For Effective Peer Exchange

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

Volume 18 (2015): Issue 1 (July 2015)

By: Richard Walker

Open Access

|Sep 2015

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