Launch of Emerging Technologies in Higher Education: A guide for South African Higher Education practitioners

Our guide has finally been launched at HELTASA!

Emerging Technologies and Changing Teaching and Learning Practices

Presented at the CHEC Digital University Symposium on the 30th of October at UWC

Daniela and viv v0.5 short from Daniela Gachago

Role of emerging technologies in ECP - is it time for transformative approaches

Prof Dick Ng'ambi, one of the members of this project, was invited to give a keynote at this year's Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) Regional Conference on the 29th of August 2013 in Granger Bay. This is his presentation drawing on findings of the project: 

Presentation at the 8th International Conference on e-Learning in Cape Town

Vivienne Bozalek and Dick Ng'ambi presented at the  8th International Conference on e-Learning in Cape Town, which took place from the 27-28 of June at the beautiful CPUT campus in Granger Bay.

Icel2013 empowering educators from Vivienne Bozalek

BJET Special Issue: Emerging Technologies and Transformation Effect on Pedagogy launched!

This Special Issue, which was organised by this project has finally been launched:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.2013.44.issue-4/issuetoc

We are very proud that our project has four (4) papers written by project members, including the editorial in this special issue:

Ng'ambi, D. and Bozalek, V. (2013), Editorial: Emerging technologies and changing learning/teaching practices. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44: 531–535. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12061

Rowe, M., Bozalek, V. and Frantz, J. (2013), Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44: 594–606. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12063

Bozalek, V., Gachago, D., Alexander, L., Watters, K., Wood, D., Ivala, E. and Herrington, J. (2013), The use of emerging technologies for authentic learning: A South African study in higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44: 629–638. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12046

Ng'ambi, D. (2013), Effective and ineffective uses of emerging technologies: Towards a transformative pedagogical model. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44: 652–661. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12053

Well done to the team !

Writing retreat and NRF meeting, Montfleur 25-28 of March 2013

Dick, Roshini, Viv, Cheryl, IGor, Daniela, Markus and Lorraine

Again we were blessed with a stay at the peaceful and beautiful space at Montfleur. The first three days were spent writing papers, imagining the book that will be part of the outputs of this project and other writing projects. On the last day we had our last face to face project meeting, looking at what we achieved over the years, thinking of tasks ahead, especially the book we will write, the practioners guide and the model we will develop. Furthermore we talked about plans ahead and reflected on the lessons learnt from the project.

Jan Herrington's recorded lecture on Design-Based Learning

Viv Bozalek, Denise Wood, Alan Amory and Igor Lesko

Authentic learning colloquium 22nd of March 2013

On the 22nd of March 2013 the Emerging Technologies in Higher Education project organised an Authentic Learning Colloquium hosted at the University of Western Cape. The aim of the colloquium was to showcase research that explores practical applications of authentic learning, emerging technologies in authentic learning, and theoretical papers that relate to authentic learning.

Prof. Jan Herrington, Prof. Denise Wood and Prof. Alan Amory were key note speakers.

On top of these three key note speeches, there were 18 presentations in three different stream focusing on Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies. For more information  please have a look at the programme and book of abstracts.

Jan Herrington set up a website on resources on authentic learning for this colloquium.
Link to Jan Herrington's keynote on 'The misapprehension of authentic learning: what are the critical characteristics?'

UWC press release on colloquium: http://www.uwc.ac.za/News/Pages/Authentic-Learning-Colloquium.aspx#.UXEvlzeYSuI