Media-integrering in afstandsonderwys

Abstract: The question addressed in this study relates to the way in which media integration may figure in order to make an impact on the need that exists for a parallel and/or augmenting teaching modus. Factors that have contributed to the existence of a need for such a complementary model, may be found, inter alia in the economical, political and social tendencies that accompany changes in the country's political dispensation. A contributing factor is the astronomical number of learners for whom a more affordable provision of education must be created. Particular reference is made to distance education as a teaching rnodus to mainly accommodate the thousands of secondary learners excluded from education as a result of one or another kind of disruption. Planners and curriculum developers should, in the new education dispensation in South-Africa, pay attention to the fact that mainly academically orientated syllabi must make way for more occupationally directed training that will probably, in all respects, be more cost effective for the economy. The aim of this study is to research the possibility of creating new educational opportunities through distance education. The objective is, to address in particular, the crisis in the provision of secondary education. In conclusion it must be mentioned that it is of paramount importance that the roll of media in education should not be underestimated, particularly when one is to work with learners who will struggle with backlogs of great magnitude and where substituted realities will be better than no example at all.M. Ed