1. Introduction
Botswana is an emerging developing country in Sub-Sahara Africa, located north of South Africa were digital
divide between Urban and rural population is norm rather than an exception. With only two state universities and
one private university, the Botswana government in collaboration with Indian universities ventured into Pan African
e-Network Tele-Education (Sunnite and Tara, 2012) project to broaden the scope of interactive ODL and offer a
new dimension in learning landscape in country to cater for growing number of university students. The whole
initiative is aimed to fast track the human resource development initiatives through the use of video conferencing
technology as a bridge to digital gap (Smarts, 2010). The targeted audience are those students who intent to earn
degrees, but due to their stringent time constraints, commitment work or inaccessible geographical locations that
they resides in, cannot afford to attend the few formal conventional universities. Tele-education involves use of
Internet, other communications technologies connect geographically dispersed teachers and students (Mbarika