Distance Education Learners: The Case of The Open University of. Tanzania. Athumani. S. Samzugi and Chausiku. M. Mwinyimbegu. The Open University of Tanzania. E-mail: ... information and ICT environment the study recommends that OUT students and staff should be trained in computer and information literacy skills.

Msagati, Nelson, "Awareness and Use of OPAC by Distance Learners: The Case of the Open University of Tanzania" (2016). ... among others, periodic information literacy training for distance learners during orientation and ... library catalogue which is used to facilitate easy retrieval of educational resources in the library.

Distance Learning: The Case of the Open University of Tanzania, in partial fulfilment .... 4.3.2 Level of Education Respondents was Pursuing at OUT… ..... life and work. Already, there has emerged a need for educational institutions to ensure that graduates are able to display appropriate levels of information literacy.

CASE STUDY OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA, ARUSHA REGION. By Ireneus Luambano ... on scholarly online e-resources available as well as organising information literacy programmes. 1. Keywords: Information seeking behaviour, distance education, distance learning students,. Open University of ...

Costing Open and Distance Teacher Education: Case Study Examples from Sub- Saharan. Africa .... Section 8: BSc with Education at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania..................ix. Section 9: Some Key ..... relevant today as former costing models become redundant in light of information and.

innovations and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that results to the increased demand ... Tanzania, the Open University of Tanzania ( OUT) is the only accredited higher distance education institution that ... Use of ICT in higher education ODL forms the basis for this study taking the experiences from ...

established the “Direction de l'Alphabetisation du Benin” (Directorate of Literacy Education of Benin); one of ... Open and Distance Learning: Achievements and Challenges in a Developing Sub-Educational Sector in Africa 29 ..... access to educational opportunities to Tanzanians; by 1994, the Open University of Tanzania.

Apr 1, 2014 ... as the information (seeking) behaviour culminating in how the information needs of distance learners are met. This review is not looking at the basic ..... Open University Tanzania (OUT), Mcharazo and Olden (1999) in their study that involved 54 distance educa- tion students on how the information needs of ...

ODL – Open and Distance Learning. OER – Open Educational Resource. OLA – Our Lady of the Apostles (College of Education, Ghana). OLE – Open Learning Exchange (Ghana). OU – Open University. OUS – Open University of Sudan. OUT – Open University of Tanzania. PES – Primary Education Studies.

Case Study 4 The organisational structure of the University of Fort Hare DE B.Ed ..... Distance Education Association of Tanzania (DEATA), the Ghana Distance ...... adult literacy rate. 5. Reopneing of the National Open University to address access and equity issues in higher education. 6. Provision of higher education to a ...

Dec 14, 2004 ... Yuri Zaparovanny. Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Higher Distance Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: National and .... The Open University of Tanzania. The African Virtual University ... Case Study of a Potential Application of the UNESCO IITE Course. “ICTs in Distance Education” ...

faced by the Academic Staff in Distance Based Institutions from Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Open University of Tanzania. Huria Journal of OUT, 14, pp. 89–110. Kenan, T., Pislaru, Crinela and Elzawi, A. (2011). Comparing the impact of E-learning and ICT in Higher. Education institutions in Libya and United ...

May 2, 2002 ... The Open University. 2005. Educational Papers. DFID. DEEP IMPACT: an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for ... 24 INVESTIGATING BILINGUAL LITERACY: EVIDENCE FROM MALAWI AND ZAMBIA. ... PRIMARY EDUCATION – A CASE STUDY FROM TANZANIA.

Dec 19, 2005 ... It was indeed a privilege for the National Open University of Nigeria to host the 2nd African Council for Distance ... including National development, Information technology, Capacity building, Quality assurance, ..... Personnel Management in Open and Distance Learning: A Case Study of the National. Open ...

Tanzania. Beyond Primary Education, the Quest for Balanced and Efficient Policy Choices for Human Development and Economic Growth. EDUCATION ... Distribution of University Students, by Type of Qualification, Academic Year .... Primary Access in Relation to the Distance to a Primary School, by Region, 2006 216.

Information resources repackaging, open and distance learning, Kenya, distance librarianship. Citation: Murumba ... education, institution-based mode of study, mixed mode provision, satellite and web-based distance education. The rapidly increasing demands for all levels .... needs, and general information literacy ( ACRL,.

Mse for taking their valuable time to guide me throughout this study. Their critical evaluation of this work has been invaluable. I sincerely thank the staff and students of Open and Distance Learning of Kenyatta University and University of Nairobi, for providing me with the information I used in this study. Without their support,.

PROJECT. An Information, Education, and Communication Strategy for Open and . Distance Learning ... Capacity Building in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) project has been developed to support the project and ..... 20,000 students enrolled in 2008); and the Open University of Tanzania. (OUT; 22,000 students in 2006.

May 12, 2016 ... A study was undertaken in four Tanzanian universities to investigate the sta- tus and practice of information literacy (IL) so as to determine the best ways of introducing or improving IL programmes. This article reports on the find- ings related to challenges and opportunities that could influence the effec-.

National Literacy Centre. NSGR. -. National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty. (MKUKUTA). NTA. -. National Technical Awards. ODL. -. Open and Distance Learning. OUT. -. Open University of Tanzania. PEDP. -. Primary Education Development Programme. PER. -. Public Expenditure Review. PFMRP .