In TVET colleges, the traditional face-to-face mode of knowledge delivery appears to
be the norm. Knowledge is often shared in a teaching space during a particular
period of time. Students and a lecturer need to be in a specified venue during an
allocated time slot for the learning process to take place which includes obtaining
knowledge from the lecturer, sharing views and storing knowledge in their minds.
There is often no interaction with the lecturer beyond the classroom. As such,
learners with learning difficulties have no alternative platform into which they can get
support; which compromises the quality of education and students’ success rate.
The use of e-learning permits students to finalise a course in their own time and at
their own location. It also implies that students are at an advantage as they do not
need to go to a particular learning institution, and they can proceed with the training
at their own pace.
This research investigated how e-learning may be used as an enabler of learning by
overcoming barriers associated with face-to-face learning. This was achieved
through the development of a proposed e-learning framework based on the existing
literature. The proposed framework was then tested through a survey distributed
among TVET stakeholders to offer an improved framework. Furthermore, the
improved framework was used to develop an e-learning architecture and prototype
which can help guide institutions who wish to adopt e-learning. / Information Technology / M. Tech. (Information Technology)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/25536 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Dhlamini, Ntokozo Mazwikayise |
| Contributors | Ngassam, Ernest Ketcha |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (xx, 242 leaves) : color illustrations, graphs (chiefly color) |
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