GEORGE NEWSFLASH - Over the weekend of 22 and 23 July candidate dance teachers from all over South Africa gathered at the George Sports Club for the first Open Distance Learning (ODL) Dance Teachers examination.
The candidate teachers, who had worked tirelessly for almost 18 months with dance technician Randall Raubenheimer, might not have had the opportunity to take the examination if it hadn't been for Raubenheimer's ingenuity and hard work.
With the official examining body being the United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dance (UKA), it is a very expensive process to attain a dance teacher's qualification in South Africa as candidates either have to travel to the UK or bring examiners from the UK to South Africa.
Raubenheimer took initiative about a year ago and started the ODL project, which facilitates the examination through streaming video clips of the students doing their steps to the UK-based examiners for assessment.
This ODL model provides an access point to all to attain a degree in dance and DanceSport and will now be used worldwide.
The very first group that obtained their Dance Teacher's Qualification through Open Distance Learning. Rowan Strydom, Julvirn Laws, Christopher Rafael, Allister Alexander, Donovan Forbes, Michelle Fortuin, Nikki Losper, Valencia Kannemeyer, Kay-Lee Brinkhuys, Robyn Alexander, Candice Rafael and Randall Raubenheimer, facilitator and project coordinator.
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