The internationalisation of higher education is a global imperative that impact on students and supervision practises. Cultural and language diversity as well as the dynamic characteristics of the learners in an Open Distant ...

Postgraduate studies (master’s and doctoral studies) are vital for any higher education institution with regard to funding and reputation. It is therefore important to ensure that the headcount and throughput rates of ...

The study reported on here sought to examine first-year students’ conceptions of writing and the extent to which these influence their academic writing; explore tutors’ expectations and understandings of student writing ...

Over the past few years, we have seen the advent of information and communication technologies (ICTs) transforming our conventional understanding of education, more specifically teaching and learning practices. While the ...

The work presented here develops a framework that integrates cultural-historical activity theory (C), authentic learning (A), and six potential roles of technology (T) in teaching and learning. Five individual case studies ...

Zimbabwe is rich in human capital and natural resources, and is poised to achieve sustainable growth and development mainly through human capital development. This paper explores the use of open and distance learning (ODL) ...

The rapid development, innovation and changes in information communication technology (ICT) have influenced teaching and learning praxis considerably. Research has shown that the adoption, diffusion and sustained use of ...