Lecturers


 * Lecturers **

Lecturers play a necessary role in distance education. They are the people who can facilitate both in the traditional format or using technology. Kyambogo University has no specific lecturers for distance education program. The same teaching staff who work on full time programs still facilitate on the distance programme.

The university uses full time who are about 100 and part time lecturers (tutorial assistant) estimated to be 20 from the faculty of education to facilitate distance education programme. Apart from the administrative staff headed by Dr Otto, the teaching staff is the same for full teacher education programmes of Bachelor of Arts / Science with Education and Bachelor of Teacher education. The lecturers come from all other departments of the faculty of education which has an implication to the teaching staff that during the face to face time with the part time students, full time students are usually in the middle of their semester as the school calendar of terms differs from the academic year of semesters.

Most lecturers have masters as their highest qualification. There are few Phd holders since the university is young. Both females and males are part of the teaching staff and most senior teaching staff are above 45 years. Although most teaching staff are not "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001), they are proficient "digital immigrants" with skills to use basic applications especially MS office and internet. Integration of ICT in formative assessment is very under developed in distance education. Educators prefer to give assignments to students who afterwards submit the assignments in hard copies to the coordinating office for marking.

The university endeavors to provide basic ICT's to its teaching staff. The teachers have a staff computer lab with about 30 computers which are connected to the internet. Although staff offices unfortunately are not connected with cable internet connections, two wireless hot spots are available; one at the administration block and library area and another at the faculty of science and computing. The reduced prices of 3G modems supplement the internet connection problems as most teaching staff possess personal modems from mainly Orange and MTN.The ministry of education in September 2011 donated two heavy duty multipurpose printers to the university of which one is placed in the teachers' computer lab

The university with its partnerships from Norway, African Development Bank and the Ministry of education are in the process of increasing ICT hardware and training of teaching staff in ICT integration in teaching and learning.

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