Online Tutoring e-Book Copyright

[ This is the original copyright statement for the e-Book, which is still online at the Internet Archive. The Scotcit links no longer work, but the editor Carol Higgison is currently working at the University of Bradford and is Chair of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and should be contacted if you wish to use the e-Book outwith these terms of use. ]

All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988, this publication or any part thereof may not be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publishers.

Except that

• (a) for courses of instruction or distribution within UK higher education institutions this publication or parts thereof may be copied without charge, provided that the source and publisher's copyright are indicated in any such reproduction,
• (b) for courses of instruction by any of the participants in the Online Tutoring Skills e-Workshop this publication or parts thereof may be copied without charge, provided that the source and publisher's copyright are indicated in any such reproduction and
• (c) authors retain their personal right to re-use the material in future versions or collections of their own work.

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this book, the publishers wish to emphasise that they cannot accept any liability for any errors which remain. Further, the views expressed in each of the chapters are primarily those of the stated authors and whilst the publishers endorse the value of all the contributions, the views expressed are not necessarily those of the publishers.

Please notify us of any factual errors, for correction in future editions.

Contact information

This e-Book has been published by The Online Tutoring Skills Project based at:

The Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS and The Centre for Open and Distance Learning, The Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, AB10 1FR.

URL: http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook
Date: December 2000
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The Online Tutoring Skills Project is funded by The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council under the ScotCIT Programme (http://www.scotcit.ac.uk).

©2000, Heriot-Watt University and The Robert Gordon University and the original authors. All rights reserved.

Information supplied by the authors and from materials submitted to the OTiS International e-Workshop: Developing Online Tutors, May 2000. The views expressed in this document are those of the authors.