Tony John Mays is currently Education Specialist for Open Schooling at the Commonwealth of Learning but was formerly Manager of the Unit for Distance Education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Folake Ruth Aluko is a Researcher in the Unit for Distance Education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. M. H. A. Combrinck is Head of Department of the Senior and Further Education and Training Phase at the Faculty of Education at Wellington Campus at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.