For the past 13 years she has been actively engaged in the training of teachers at the NWU Faculty of Education in their Distance Education Programmes as well as Full Time Education Programmes where she has been actively involved in designing different academic programmes for in-service training of principals, teachers and education students in various subject specialities, Curriculum Studies, Comparative Education and Research Methodology. In her research she is concerned with various elements of Distance Education, Self-Directed Learning within teacher education, as well as promoting self-directed learning for teachers and school learners. She has published several articles in various journals; and she has supervised several Masters and PhD students in the above subject specialities.