ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how audio-cassettes offer distance education, and how one compare may their potential with other distance teaching media. For students, study material presented, on cassettes offers considerable freedom. Students can explicit the hardware of cassette-players, the stop, pause and replay devices to organise their study approach according to personal style and preference. Thus, it can be argued that cassettes provide students with a learning medium which shares many of the advantages inherent in a written text. Student feedback on Open University courses suggests that tutors who adopt a friendly, personal approach in their cassette teaching are very highly regarded. It is understandable that more glamorous technologies such as video and microcomputers attract a great deal of attention, but the humble audio-cassette has a great deal to offer distance education, and should not be ignored.
