Students’ Experiences of e-tutors’ facilitation of Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) for the Design Process Content in Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) Environment

Abstract

This paper reports about students’ experiences of e-tutors’ facilitation of technological content knowledge (TCK) for the design process content in Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) environment. The unique nature of the ODeL environment necessitates student assistance from qualified e-tutors. This paper reports about the students’ experiences with e-tutors’ facilitation of technological content Knowledge (TCK) for the design process content in Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) environment. Competent e-tutors are defined in this paper as those who are capable of assisting students who use Technological Content Knowledge (TCK). 'What are students' experiences of e-tutors' facilitation of TCK in the Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) environment?' is a fundamental inquiry in order to achieve this. As a result, it was determined that their e-tutors lacked the ability to use TCK to offer the make stage of their design process learning. This conclusion was reached based on information received from 350 students who had registered in a module for a year-long program. The e-tutors should be further enhanced with training to teach the design process with TCK in the context of ODeL, according to one recommendation.