* – You drew on some academic sources to demonstrate partial understanding of sustained shared thinking. However, you needed to make sure that you substantiated all of the claims you made in this assignment.
* – You attempted to provide a critique in this essay by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of distance learning.
W – Rather than providing a critique of distant learning, remember that the marking criteria states that you needed to provide a detailed and original critique of the way in which the key ideas and theories chosen related to quality interactions in education (in your case, sustained shared thinking) might apply to your particular area of educational interest (in your case, distance learning). As you did not do this, unfortunately, you did not meet an essential criterion for this assessment. Furthermore, you could have chosen a more specific area of educational interest by clearly stating what sector you were looking at e.g. primary education, secondary education, further education, higher education, lifelong learning.