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Mrs Mandi Axmann
Instructional Designer, Technikon Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
It has always been the norm in education to involve industry
in the curriculum design process. This is the story, however,
of how an instructional designer successfully attempted to, not
only involve the specific industry, but also form a full partnership
for process of the designing and delivery of the courseware for
distance education.
In South Africa, as in other developing countries, money is not
always freely available for the development of distance education
materials. Using this model, the corporate partner sponsored
the development of the materials, and more importantly, took
ownership of the courseware.
It is very important that corporate partners should take pride in and ownership of courseware, as this also aids the accreditation process as well as the assessment processes. For the purpose of this qualification, the model of workplace training was chosen, with specific on-the-job and off-the-job assessment tasks. The industry provided their own tutors and assessors, which in turn was trained and assisted by the educational provider.
This lecture will focus on the partnership itself, the advantages
and disadvantages thereof, the successes and problems and will
try to present a working model for education.
RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
5-9 July 2000