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Most distance education institutions organize occasional meetings for students to interact face-to-face with instructors and other students. Besides helping understand content, many students find the social support of such tutorials to be of great benefit, particularly when they are new to distance learning. Instructors must be trained how to conduct tutorial groups. It is important that they focus principally on the learners, not the content and know ways of clarifying and elaborating on the materials designed and delivered by the distance teaching institution. Their job is not to replace the content, but to help the effort of individual students to learn it in their different ways.
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