Views of Postgraduate Distance Education Students on the Seminar Presentation

Abstract

This paper reports on a study carried out on the views of Zimbabwe Open University Masters in Education (Educational Administration, Planning and Policy Studies) students on the effectiveness of using seminar presentations as a teaching strategy. The study particularly focused on capturing their views on the support they were receiving from lecturers before, during and after presentations and the availability of literature sources for preparing the seminar paper. The findings of the study show that the majority of the students thought that the seminar presentations were an effective mode of teaching course content at Masters Degree level. The students also indicated that they were happy with the support they were receiving from their lecturers during the preparation and presentation of their papers. The study also noted that the students were experiencing difficulties in accessing reading materials for use when preparing their papers.