2. All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education 1 – 4 February 2004 Cape Town, South Africa DISTANCE EDUCATION: IS IT STILL RELEVANT IN 2004? Sir John Daniel Assistant Director-General for Education

3. The King is dead Long live the King!

4. Continuity Change

5. The King is dead Long live the King!

6. Doubts about DE 1) Changing Technology Changing Nomenclature

7. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Virtual education Online learning Distributed education Flexible learning e-learning Open learning

8. Doubts about DE 2) Use of DE techniques in the classroom

9. Open LearningDistance Education All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education 1 – 4 February 2004 Cape Town, South Africa

10. The International Council for Correspondence Education

11. The International Council for Distance Education

12. The International Council for Open and Distance Education

13. open universities (purpose) distance education (practice)

14. Distance education has achieved one of the rare revolutions in the history of education.

15. COST ACCESS QUALITY The Eternal Triangle of Education

16. COST ACCESSQUALITY

17. Example OPEN UNIVERSITIES

18. The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) - one million students - one of the top ten Indian universities for teaching quality - low costs

19. BRITAIN’S TOP NINE UNIVERSITIES Quality Rankings of Teaching based on all subject assessments 1995-2003 (Sunday Times University Guide 2003) 1CAMBRIDGE 96% 2LOUGHBOROUGH95% 3=LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS88% 3=YORK88% 5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY87% 6 OXFORD86% 7 IMPERIAL COLLEGE82% 8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON77% 9 ESSEX77%

20. THE SECRET: deconstruct the educational process

21. The Educational Process - Design - Plan - Implement - Evaluate

22. The Educational Process - Design - Plan - Implement - Evaluate all done by the teacher

23. The Educational Process - Design --- - Plan --- - Implement --- - Evaluate --- division of labour

24. THE SECRET: deconstruct the learning process

25. Two types of learning activities: INDEPENDENT

26. Two types of learning activities: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE

27. Balance: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE

28. COST ACCESSQUALITY

29. INDEPENDENT - listen to radio - multi-media

30. INDEPENDENT = Economies of scale such as: - printing books - broadcasting TV - downloading software

31. INDEPENDENT = QUALITY of scale such as: - printing books - broadcasting TV - downloading software

32. Balance: INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE

33. = PEOPLE

34. INTERACTIVE = PEOPLE (division of labour)

35. CanINTERACTION occur throughINDEPENDENT media?

36. APPLICATION TO AFRICA

37. UNISA is an African MEGA-UNIVERSITY

38. NIGERIAN OPEN U will be an African MEGA-UNIVERSITY

39. INDEPENDENT media have falling costs - webcasting - broadcasting TV/radio - downloading software

40. COL and UNESCO are encouraging the OPEN COURSEWARE movement

41. African Virtual University Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth

42. Teacher training/retraining = a vital application of DISTANCE EDUCATION for Africa

43. Do not be traumatised by the digital divide!

44. WANTED!! - clear thinking - good organisation - specialisation - division of labour - teamwork

45. COST ACCESS QUALITY

46. COST ACCESSQUALITY

47. All-Africa Ministers' Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education DISTANCE EDUCATION IS VERY RELEVANT TO AFRICA IN 2004!