Beyond the Theoretical Impasse: Extending the applications of Transactional Distance Theory

Education is everybody’s business – the individual, the organisation, and the nation state.

Quality assurance, following the instructional design ADDIE model process, is at the heart of distance education policy development and becomes crucial in contributing towards making distance provision globally competitive, portable across borders, and finally in protecting consumers of education.

The premise of this article is that the Transactional Distance Theory (TDT) should be accepted as a global theory for the further development of distance education.