ABSTRACT
Good teaching is getting most students to use the level of cognitive processes needed to achieve the intended outcomes that the more academic students use spontaneously. Teaching is a highly challenging, personal and rewarding endeavour for most academics. Traditionally, on-campus universities have afforded their academics tremendous freedom in teaching. Teaching, the relationship mediating the subject knowledge between academic and student in education, is typically approached through the lecture. In the specialist-assisted approach, the task of teaching is distributed across the four roles of lead academic, learning activity designer, tutor and pastoral support team. The form of assimilative technique chosen becomes a major determinant of both how a university operates and how academics express their teaching function. Teaching in digital distance education is more correctly considered an integrated system, a function more than a role. In module development, then, the lead academic and learning activity designer collaborate in the teaching role.
