A challenge faced by most heads of academic departments around the world is to manage the adoption and use of appropriate learning technologies in order to support the department’s learning offerings to students. Earlier ...

Innovation and creativity on a wide front and at all levels and functions of the organisation are key to the survival of global business (Yeo & Sriramesh 2009; Goodman in Swart 2012). This is of particular relevance to the ...

Distance learning is an excellent method of reaching learners who are separated by time and distance, or both. Because of the competing priorities of work, home and school, such learners desire a high degree of flexibility. ...

In TVET colleges, the traditional face-to-face mode of knowledge delivery appears to be the norm. Knowledge is often shared in a teaching space during a particular period of time. Students and a lecturer need to be in a ...

Academic research is essential for the development of individual academics. Universities support academic staff through various research support programmes in order to improve its research enterprise. To improve the quality ...

Although the merits of practical work in physics are often questioned, it remains part of physics curricula world-wide. In distance education the incorporation of practical work into the curriculum is considerably ...

As new teaching and learning technologies begin to challenge the boundaries between time and place, distance and elearning are becoming mainstream approaches to increase access and improve quality in post-secondary ...

Distance education institutions gradually used technology to teach and interact with its diverse student body. University of South Africa (Unisa) has adopted Open Distance and E-learning (ODeL) model to reach students in ...

This research is predicated in the firm conviction that the quality of education is dependent upon the quality of teachers. Teachers as the bedrock of education must participate actively and conscientiously in their ...