Department of Education:

• 1. A Distance Education Quality Standards Framework for South Africa (1996)

• 2. Curriculum 2005 – Implementing OBE

• 3. Green Paper on Further Education and Training (1998)

• 4. Norms and Standards for Teacher Education (COTEP, 1996)

• 4a. Curriculum Framework for General and Further Education and Training (1996)

• 5. Evaluation of Qualifications for Employment in Education (1997)

• 6. Discussion Document by the Technical Committee on the Revision of Norms and Standards for Teacher Education, Training and Development (1997)

• 7. Norms & Standards for Educators (February 2000)

• 7a. SCOPE Project Proposal

8. Jill Adler (1997)
A Base-Line Study Teaching / Learning practices of primary and secondary mathematics, scince and English Language teachers enrolled in the Wits FDE Programme.

9. Sally Brown and Phil Race 1997
Assess Your Own Teaching Quality

10. L Cohen and L Manion (1983)
A Guide to Teaching Practice

11. Laura Czerniewicz
Information Literacy in the Western Cape: preliminary study (1999)

12. D C de Waal
Towards an Outcomes Based Teacher Education Model (JET 1996)

13. Education Policy Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand
National Teacher Appraisal Pilot Project Report 1997

14. Richard Freeman (1997)
Managing Open Systems

16. Denise Hevey (1996)
Competence-based Assessment in Open and Distance Learning

17. Craig E Forbes and Ken Ryba
Linking Students, Teachers and Learning within an Inquiry-Based Classroom (1994)

18. Independent Educational Media, Higher Education Review (1997)
The Problem with Distance Education is - Distance

19. Jonathan Jansen, Pam Christie
Changing Curriculum (1999)

20. Trevor Kerry and Ann Shelton-Mayes
Issues in Mentoring (1995)

21. Joe Murray (1999)
Computer Technology and Teacher Development: A Program to Support Pedagogical Change

Natal College of Education:

• 22. The Teacher in the Classroom (1997)

• 23. Natural Science in the Classroom

• 24. English in the Classroom

• 25. Human and Social Science in the Classroom

• 26. Accreditation of Prior Learning

• 27. Tutor’s Guide to APL

Open Learning Through Distance Education:

• 28. Tessa Welch, Changing a Contact Course to a Distance Course (Vol 3 No1)

• 29. Tessa Welch, Evaluating the quality of assessment practices in teacher development programmes: Lesson from the Educator Development and Support (EDS) Project 1999 (Vol 5 No 3)

• 30. Mike Adendorff, Collaborative, Cross Institutional materials development (Vol4. No 3)

• 30a.  The design and delivery of teacher development programmes using distance education  (Vol 5 No 1)

• 30b. Jenny Louw, Assessment in open and distance education (Vol 5 No 1)

The South African Institute for Distance Education:

• 31. Understanding Outcomes Based Education (1998)

• 32. Supporting Distance Learners (1998)

• 33. A well-Functioning Distance Education Institution (1994)

• 34. Criteria for the Analysis of Open and Distance Learning Courses (1995)

• 35. The Shoma Education Foundation in Soshanguvw: Evaluation of a Pilot project, July, August and September 1998.

• 36. The Concept of Open Learning (Ch1, Open Learning Project) 2000

37. Mary Thorpe and David Grugeon
Open Learning in the Mainstream (1996)

University of South Australia Distance Education Centre:

• 38. Ted Nunan (1994), Flexible Delivery: a discussion of issues

39. Karen Wiburg
Teaching Science with Techonology: Telecommunications and Multimedia (1994)

40. Allison Wolfe (1995)
Competence Based Assessment

41. R M Yule, P J N Steyn et al
Teaching and Micro Teaching (1983)

42. Department of Education (1995)
White Paper on Education and Training, http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/white_papers/educ2.html

43. Centre for Applied Special Technology
The Role of Online Communicaiton in Schools: A National Study (1996)
http://www.cast.org

44.  Glenn M Kleiman (2000)
Myths and Realities about Technology in K-12 Schools
http://www.edc.org/LNT/news/Issue14/feature1.htm

45.  A Leuhrmann, BYTE (July 1980)
Computer Literacy - A National Crisis and a Solution for it

46.   US Department of Education's 1999 Regional Conferences on Improving America's Schools (CD), The SouthEast & Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium (1999)
Factors that Affect the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning

Apple Classroom of Tomorrow Project
http://www.apple.com/education/professionaldevelopment/research.html

• 47.  Changing the Conversation about Teaching Learning and Technology (1995)
• 48.  Evaluation Study: First and Second Year Findings
• 49.  Teacher Beliefs and Practices (Part I): Patterns of Change
• 50. Teacher Beliefs and Practices (Part II): Support for Change
• 51.  Teaching in High Tech Environments: Classroom Management Revisited
• 52.  Partnerships for Change
• 53.  The Relationship between Technology Innovation and Collegial Interaction
• 54.  Creating and Alternative Context for Teacher Development: ACOT's Two Year Pilot Project
• 55.  Creating and Alternative Context for Teacher Development: The ACOT Teacher Development Centers
• 56.  Integrating Technology Into Classroom Instruction: An Assessment if the Impact of the ACOT Teacher Development Center Project
• 57. Support and Training for Learning Communities
• 58. Teacher-centred Staff Development

59.  International Technology Education Association
Standards for Technology Literacy: Comtent for the Study of Technology
http://www.iteawww.org

60. Milken Exchange on Education Technology (1999)
A National Survey on Information Technology in Teacher Education: Will New Teachers be Prepared to Teach in a Digital Age?
http://www.milkenexchange.org

SAQA
http://www.saqa.co.za

• 61.  A total quality assurance for the NQF
• 62.  The National Qualifications Framework: An Overview
• 63.  The National Qualifications Framework: A total quality system for education and training in South Africa
• 63a.  Criteria for the Generations and Evaluations of Qualifications and Standards within the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) (1999)

RSA

64.  SAQA Act, 1995 (Act 58 of 1995)
65.  Skills Development Act (Act 97 of 1998)

Distance Education

66.  Alistair Inglis, Is online delivery less costly than print and is   it meaningful to ask? (Vol 20, No.2)

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