Faculty involvement in instructional materials development for distance study at the University of the South Pacific.
Titel:
Faculty involvement in instructional materials development for distance study at the University of the South Pacific.
Auteur:
Naidu, Som
Verschenen in:
Distance education
Paginering:
Jaargang 8 (1987) nr. 2 pagina's 176-189
Jaar:
1987-09
Inhoud:
As a regional institution serving the needs of eleven different island nations of the South West Pacific, the University of the South Pacific is, along with its on-campus face-to-face teaching activity, deeply committed to and reliant on distance study methods. Both these activities at the University are the principal responsibility of a single body of teaching staff. This investigation, through the means of a structured questionnaire, studied the involvement of members of the University's teaching staff in instructional materials development for distance study. It enquired into the time they spent on such activity, their levels of satisfaction with the materials they produced, various preferences and their views on how the process of instructional materials development at USP could be improved. Responses received revealed a rather unsatisfactory picture with a cry for, among other things, more time, advance planning, greater consultation among colleagues and adequate support services in instructional materials development for distance study.
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