ICT is hardly used in Uganda to develop distance education and this despite political goodwill, the positive experiences reflected in some of the showcases and the limited but available infrastructure. Key enabling factors have been identified:government commitment, planning, availability of resources, technology,private sector partnership and commitment. The major challenges:lack of adequate resources, standards, a negative attitude and the lack of an ICT policy to guide implementations. A central element in this research was an RTEP oriented learning approach to counter the...

Each of the units can be used as a standalone for self instruction, for practice or reading to get informed and reference. Each unit has an inbuilt practice exercise to help you apply what you will have covered. In addition you are called upon to measure your perceptions of the learning environment of each unit. There is cross referencing in the different units to re-emphasize issues and to avoid repetition. References for detailed reading are provided. Apart from the basics of communication of the Units (4) look at individual technologies in detail (Visual, Audio, Audiovisual and...