Tony Mays is Manager of the Unit for Distance Education at the University of Pretoria and formerly Senior Programme Specialist with the South African Institute for Distance Education (see www.saide.org.za ). He works/has worked with a number of higher education institutions in the areas of strategic planning, systems review, operational coordination, ODL policy and practice, quality assurance and evaluation, curriculum design, Open Educational Resources (OER) and the management of teaching practice within South Africa as well as more widely in the sub-Saharan Africa region and internationally. He has published/co-published textbooks for K12 Language and Literature and Teacher Education an...