Attending to your needs

Our staff

IODL is home to a rich variety of researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.  We embrace multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to researching ODL praxis whether as individuals or in interdisciplinary teams.

Our networks and spheres of influence

IODL primarily serves the seven colleges of Unisa namely the College of Economic and Management Sciences, College of Law, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, College of Human Sciences, College of Education and the College of Graduate Studies.

We have formal and informal links with a range of South African, African and international open, distance and e-learning institutions and networks.

Specific initiatives 2012-2015

As individuals and as a collective, the staff members of the IODL

• provide ODL research leadership to the Unisa colleges, institutional forums and a range of stakeholders and ODL research interest groups
• organise and participate in a range of ODL research conferences, seminars, colloquiums, capacity development initiatives and discussions forums
• develop and maintain an online self-managed resource-rich research website
• support  and celebrate innovation and excellence in ODL research
• supervise postgraduate ODL research
• establish, sustain and grow individual and collective national and international

networks in ODL research