Mod1SU1 Learning Activity 1.5 Task

Report theme

“A coherent national framework for the role of ICT’s in distance higher education in South Africa”. 

Instructions for report:

Read the following document pages, under Additional Resources, critically with an eye on the lack of a single national framework to rationalise the role of ICT’s in distance higher education:

Council on Higher Education (CHE). 2007. Review of Higher  Education in South Africa – Selected Themes. Pretoria: CHE. 

Read Pages 53-75.

Read the aforementioned resource with an eye on the incoherency and fragmented nature of existing policy on the incoherency and fragmented nature of existing policy on the role of ICT’s in higher education.

• Synthesize from the aforementioned reader your own framework for a coherent policy on the role of ICT’s in distance higher education.
• Your recommended framework should address the fact that there are no coherence (unanimity) in the conceptualisation, visualisation and utilisation of ICT’s in higher education.
• You should address the lack of consensus on fundamental issues pertaining to ICT in higher education.
• 700 words.