Amidst the different challenges facing higher education and particularly distance education (DE) and open distance learning (ODL), access to information and communication technology (ICT) and students’ abilities to use ...

One of the initiatives that universities across the world have embarked on is to investigate students’ dependence on textbooks and their satisfaction with the textbooks they use. The purpose of this research paper was to ...

In the distance teaching institutions where e-learning initiatives are underway and where the planners and administrators grapple with effective adaptation and implementation of technology-enabled education, students’ views ...

Open access in South Africa has implications for teaching and learning processes; for instance, addressing the diverse learning experiences and abilities, as well as disabilities of a diverse university student population. ...

This article considers the use of test-driven development in a programming course as an ipsative assessment technique in the open distance learning environment. Ipsative feedback in the form of test-driven development in ...

An American-Indian proverb says: Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. Unfortunately ...

A university as an educational institution can be seen as the keeper of intellectual riches and as holding the key to virtually unlimited knowledge resources. Within Africa, Unisa is one of the major gateways to potential ...

Distance education has come a long way since the days in which the only medium used was print. It now includes the use of radio, television, computers and mobile technology. Despite the challenges Africa faces regarding ...