Problematic issues encountered by the contemporary course writer of flexible/distance education concerning the current postmodernist educational theory containing: VETAB, AQF, training packages, etc

Contemporary course writers of flexible/distance education delivery mode are creating texts within a new educational theory: the theory of postmodernism. Current flexible/distance education courses are not written for students as we knew them in the sixties and seventies, nor clients as we referred to them in the modernist eighties but as consumers in the postmodern nineties. Syllabi and modules have been replaced with training packages. Course writers can define what training packages must not have and describe what training packages must not contain, yet on the other hand, they have esoteric definitions of what training packages must have and must contain. Contemporary course writers of flexible/distance education mode are caught in the web of postmodern educational theory: a theory by its very essence, without boundaries, without words.

Contemporary course writers of flexible/distance education delivery mode are creating texts within a new educational theory: the theory of postmodernism. Current flexible/distance education courses are not written for students as we knew them in the sixties and seventies, nor clients as we referred to them in the modernist eighties but as consumers in the postmodern nineties. Syllabi and modules have been replaced with training packages. Course writers can define what training packages must not have and describe what training packages must not contain, yet on the other hand, they have ...  [+] Show more