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The Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA) is an education institution located in Durban, South Africa.It is a private higher education institution, established in 1995 as a post-apartheid empowerment institution, offering affordable and accessible management education primarily to persons previously denied access to postgraduate education.
The University of South Africa (UNISA) [a] is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa . Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's ...
A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system specifically designed to facilitate the management of educational courses by teachers for their students. It predominantly relies on computer hardware and software, enabling distance learning. In North America, this concept is commonly denoted as a "Learning Management System" (LMS).
College SA is a distance learning provider. All of their courses are offered via correspondence, and are available to students all over South Africa, [3] as well as international students. Academic support is provided to students by an online classroom, Educational Planners and course tutor.
In 2004 South Africa started reforming its public higher education system, [2] merging and incorporating small public universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions "university" (previously there had been several types of higher education institution).
In South Africa, the University of South Africa, formerly an examining and certification body, started to present distance education tuition in 1946. William Rainey Harper encouraged the development of external university courses at the new University of Chicago in the 1890s.
Moodle (/ ˈ m uː d əl / MOO-dəl) is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. [3] [4] Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other online learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.
Founded in 1949, the University of Pretoria's now defunct Graduate School of Management was the first business school in South Africa and was the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America, [1] [2] whilst the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and University of Stellenbosch Business School, founded in 1964, are ...