<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The effective communication between the learners and the tutor-counsellor has been proved to significantly promote the positive emotions, reduce the negative ones and reinforce the learners’ participation in a distance learning program. The main purpose of our research is to investigate the emotions experienced by the learners of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) and how these emotions may vary through interaction with the tutor-counsellor. In order to carry out the research, a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was implemented. Data collection was performed via an anonymous questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The sample of the research consisted of undergraduate and post-graduate students of the HOU. Our findings confirm the dominant place occupied by emotions in the learning process, a place that has been until recently entirely attributed to reason, while highlighting the communicative and supportive role to be taken by the tutor-counsellor in distance learning programs.</p></abstract>

The effective communication between the learners and the tutor-counsellor has been proved to significantly promote the positive emotions, reduce the negative ones and reinforce the learners’ participation in a distance learning program. The main purpose of our research is to investigate the emotions experienced by the learners of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) and how these emotions may vary through interaction with the tutor-counsellor. In order to carry out the research, a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was implemented. Data collection was performed via an anonymous questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The sample of the research consisted of undergraduate and post-graduate students of the HOU. Our findings confirm the dominant place occupied by emotions in the learning process, a place that has been until recently entirely attributed to reason, while highlighting the communicative and supportive role to be taken by the tutor-counsellor in distance learning programs.

Emotions Experienced by Learners and their Development through Communication with the Tutor-Counsellor

University of Crete, Faculty of Education, Department of Preschool Education

Secondary Education Teacher, Kavala, Greece

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

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The effective communication between the learners and the tutor-counsellor has been proved to significantly promote the positive emotions, reduce the negative...

Emotions Experienced by Learners and their Development through Communication with the Tutor-Counsellor

Published Online: Jan 26, 2016

Page range: 36 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eurodl-2015-0012

Keywords
distance learning, learners’ emotions, tutor-counsellor, collaboration, interaction, support

© 2015 Michail Kalogiannakis et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Emotions Experienced by Learners and their Development through Communication with the Tutor-Counsellor

Published Online: Jan 26, 2016

Page range: 36 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eurodl-2015-0012

Keywordsdistance learning, learners’ emotions, tutor-counsellor, collaboration, interaction, support

© 2015 Michail Kalogiannakis et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
distance learning, learners’ emotions, tutor-counsellor, collaboration, interaction, support