Attractiveness to Become UT’s Tutor

Sugilar, (2011) Attractiveness to Become UT’s Tutor. In: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), 2-5 oktober 2011, Bali.

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Abstract

Tutor of distance education is an important factor to improve the quality of learning so that the Universitas Terbuka (UT) put the tutor as a strategic partner. The tutors come from lectures in universities and high school teachers who meet the requirements. Many factors are underlie them to become UT’s tutors. To improve the services of UT against the tutor as a strategic partner, it is important for UT to identify those aspects which appeal them to become tutors. There has been no study conducted to analyze the attractiveness factors become tutors as this study attempted to. Contrary to initial assumptions, this study found that the main attraction became UT’s is not time flexibility and financial variables but the variables of educational aspirations and social variables are more attractive factors to become a tutor of UT. This article also discussed various aspects of efforts to maintain the attractiveness and commitment as UT’s tutors.

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