{"id":4950,"date":"2025-06-19T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/a-call-for-the-philosophising-of-open-distance-e-learning-learning-as-the-art-of-living-in-twenty-first-century-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:20:45","slug":"a-call-for-the-philosophising-of-open-distance-e-learning-learning-as-the-art-of-living-in-twenty-first-century-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/a-call-for-the-philosophising-of-open-distance-e-learning-learning-as-the-art-of-living-in-twenty-first-century-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call for the Philosophising of Open, Distance E-Learning: Learning as the Art of Living in Twenty-First Century South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>A Call for the Philosophising of Open, Distance E-Learning: Learning as the Art of Living in Twenty-First Century South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1173' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1173\/1068' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequent \u201clockdowns\u201d caused many universities across South Africa to adopt the andragogical methodology of remote teaching and learning. This move was pragmatic rather than ideological: When students and lecturers could not meet face-to-face, teaching and learning had to continue. Aside from the necessities of the Covid pandemic, there are institutions mandated to teach at a distance as their norm, so this research has the potential to be relevant to both recently hybrid and strictly distance learning universities. Our survey of the available literature directs us to a lacuna in the purely philosophical research on \u201cdistance education\u201d and \u201copen distance e-learning.\u201d For, whilst there exists literature that deals exclusively with the \u201cphilosophy of distance education\u201d, there is scant literature available on the \u201cphilosophy of open education\u201d, and more specifically an absence of what we deem as the \u201cphilosophy of open distance e-learning\u201d. Herein we will argue that open distance e-learning, or, ODeL, is deserving of philosophical engagement by professional philosophers. Moreover, we will contend that if this is undertaken from an Aristotelian approach, then ODeL can be imagined as directing all involved in its project to living well.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yolandi Mari\u00e9 Coetser (North-West University, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Callum David Scott (University of South Africa, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>open, distance e-learning, Aristotle, ethics, politics<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: A Call for the Philosophising of Open, Distance E-Learning: Learning as the Art of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1268,1267,1269,1266,934],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-aristotle","tag-distance-e-learning","tag-ethics","tag-open","tag-politics","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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