Most of all they appreciated feedback that showed that the teacher was involved in their work and appeared to do something with their work. In general we can conclude that teletutors need more time to prepare and execute adequate feedback. Therefore it would be recommendable to revisit the existing system of time-management. The arduousness of giving proper feedback is the most critical factor of the extra coaching time that is needed in online learning. This should be taken into account in both the overall expenditure of the resources that are needed for this intensified coaching and in the distribution of the educational workload.
Student support costs time and money, but is also the secret of successful online learning.
Online learning facilitates collaborative learning. Students can learn from each other's previous experiences and work on interesting problems and projects together. Both the TAET-teachers and the students in general favour collaborative learning. Unfortunately, this was not stimulated by the programme management and the programme itself was too full to allow for intensive collaborative work. Collaborative learning takes an effort and there was simply no time for this.