| Summary: | M.Ed. (Media Studies) === The lack of guidelines for the use of the telephone in distance tuition often leads to either the indiscriminate use or underutilisation of the medium. It can cause the lecturer to be inadequate at the structuring of individual telephonic conversations or telephonic presentations such as telelectures, teleconferences and multimedia telephone usage. The aim of this study, from the context of distance tuition and the usage potential of the telephone, is to provide guidelines for the use of the telephone by both the lecturer and the learner. An effort was made to elucidate the uniqueness of distance tuition and the specific possibilities of the telephone by means of a literature study, supplemented by personal practical experience and that of colleagues and experts in the field of distance tuition. In order to get a perspective on distance tuition, the different components involved in the integration of the telephone were considered. Subsequently the potential of the telephone as a medium was discussed. The aspects above culminated in the provision of guidelines. The conclusion drawn from the study is that the average distance lecturer is not fully conversant with the possibilities of the telephone, with the result that the telephone is underutilised locally. The possibilities of the telephone as part of a multimedia package are often underestimated and warrant further investigation.
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