Integration of Information Communication Technologies (Icts) in The Distance Education Bachelor of Education Programme, Makerere University, Uganda
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2006
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Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Abstract
This article reports on the problems experienced by the Department of Distance
Education, Makerere University, Uganda with the B.Ed. (External) programme with
specific reference to the technology needs and expectations of the programme.
With a total enrolment of nearly 3,500 students in 2003, this programme was one
of the largest distance education programmes for teachers in the country.
It was therefore important to establish what technologies the stakeholders of this
programme had access to, what technologies they believed could be used for the
programme and for what purpose, and finally what prerequisites should be put in
place for this technology to work. The article reports on the availability of and
access to ICTs, access to telecommunications and sources of funding for ICTs in the
distance education programme.
The authors also looked critically at a number of prerequisites thought to enhance
the effectiveness of ICTs in the B.Ed. (External) programme from an African
perspective hoping that the integration of ICT in the programmes would lift the
distance education mode of delivery of these programmes from a classical first and
second generation, to a third generation level of operation.
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In-service education and training, Teacher training programmes, Distance education, Information communication technologies (ICT)
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Aguti, J. N., & Fraser, W. J. (2006). Integration of information communication technologies (ICTs) in the distance education bachelor of education programme, Makerere University, Uganda. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 7(3), 89-104.