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    The first graduates of the Makerere University External Degree Programme: a case study
    (Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, 1999-03) Aguti, Jessica Norah
    In 1980, efforts were made to reintroduce correspondence courses or distance education courses, as they came to be known. This was contained in the university’s plan for 1980-1986 which included starting External Degrees as one of its long term objectives (CCE, 1990). In the IACE Five Year Development Plan of 1993/94 - 1997/98, IACE sets out its objectives and one of them is to ‘...provide External Degrees to adults’ (IACE, 1993:1). The External Degree Programme (EDP) was launched in 1991 with two four year courses; Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) and Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com). Both courses are run on similar course outlines and regulations as those governing full time internal programmes. The Institute now runs these courses in collaboration with the School of Education for B.Ed; and the Faculty of Commerce for B.Com.
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    Integration of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Education Bachelor of Education Programme, Makerere University, Uganda
    (Anadolu University, 2006-07) Aguti, Jessica Norah ; Fraser, William J.
    This article reports on the problems experienced by the Department of Distance Education, Makerere University, Uganda with the B.Ed. (External) programme with specific reference to the technology needs and expectations of the programme. With a total enrolment of nearly 3,500 students in 2003, this programme was one of the largest distance education programmes for teachers in the country. It was therefore important to establish what technologies the stakeholders of this programme had access to, what technologies they believed could be used for the programme and for what purpose, and finally what prerequisites should be put in place for this technology to work. The article reports on the availability of and access to ICTs, access to telecommunications and sources of funding for ICTs in the distance education programme. The authors also looked critically at a number of prerequisites thought to enhance the effectiveness of ICTs in the B.Ed. (External) programme from an African perspective hoping that the integration of ICT in the programmes would lift the distance education mode of delivery of these programmes from a classical first and second generation, to a third generation level of operation.