A New Pedagogy is Emerging...And Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contact North

A New Pedagogy is Emerging...And Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contact North

Emerging technologies presentation at 2nd CPUT Teaching and Learning with Technology Day

2012 T&L Technology day-Daniela from Gavin Kallis on Vimeo.

Community, self and identity :: HSRC Press

Community, self and identity :: HSRC Press

Exciting the book is now available in hard copy!

Writing retreat in Montfleur 16-19 October 2012

The project members spent a fantastic week at Montfleur writing, discussing, planning, brainstorming, critiquing, presenting, hiking and eating ...

Most participants worked on papers to be submitted for the BJET special issue on Emerging Technologies, but some also worked on and presented their PHDs, either proposals or work in progress...or other papers they were working on...

These images speak for themselves:

At the back: Lynn, Viv, Lorraine, Igor, Denise, Markus
2nd row: Cheryl, Roshini, Daniela
In the front: Juliana, Lucy, Roshini, Markus

Use of emerging technologies and transformation of teaching/learning practices

Presentation by Dick Ng'ambi at the Makerere University on the 10th of October 2012

Use of Emerging Technologies and transformation of teaching/learning practices from Ng'ambi Mobile Learning

ALT C presentation: Emerging technologies and authentic learning

This is a presentation that Viv Bozalek gave the 2012 ALT-C conference held at the University of Manchester and entitled 'A confrontation with reality'.

Authentic learning and emerging technologies final from Vivienne Bozalek

Presentation at emerge2012

We wrote a paper for the emerge 2012 online conference on our (never-ending) journey towards a shared understanding of the term "emerging technologies".

This is the powerpoint presentation we created based on the paper.

Towards a shared understanding of emerging technologies: experiences in a collaborative research project in South Africa

View more PowerPoint from Daniela Gachago

We also had a lively online session around the topic full of ideas on how to define emerging technologies.

Emerging Technologies in South African Higher Education Institutions: towards a teaching and learning framework

Emerging Technologies in South African Higher Education Institutions: towards a teaching and learning framework

View more PowerPoint from Ng'ambi Mobile Learning

It has been a great day today.Meeting lecturers from different Hiegher education institutions in the western Cape who are interested in knowing how to appropriate integrate technology in their teaching and learning. great effort colleagues!

Welcome to all the new Emerging Technology participants

We as facilitators are all really looking forward to meeting you face to face quite soon and to hearing about your teaching and learning experiences in higher ed

BJET special issue - Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning/Teaching Practices

We are proud to announce a call for papers for a special edition on "Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning/Teaching Practices". Two of our project team members, Prof. Dick Ng’ambi and Prof. Vivienne Bozalek, will be guest editors.

This Special Journal Issue on Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning / Teaching Practices, BJET Volume 44, Issue 4, will be published in July 2013.

Overview:

The education sector in general and higher education in particular is under pressure to respond to concerns of the effectiveness and outcomes of teaching and learning. Both educators and students are exploiting ubiquitous and emerging technologies to respond to various teaching and learning challenges. Some of the consequences of emerging technologies include the rise in personal learning environments, decrease in reliance on institutionally regulated learning environments, need for more integration of formal with informal learning; life-wide with life-long learning; and demand for ‘flexible student-centered learning, where students can access learning at times and places which are personalized and suitable for them’ (Johnson et al., 2010). There is no doubt that changes in teaching and learning environments are increasingly being impacted by uses of emerging technologies. However, the extent to which the uses of emerging technologies contribute to effectiveness and or outcomes of teaching and learning remain unexplored. This special edition will focus on how emerging technologies are being used to transform teaching and learning practices in higher education, which may lead to qualitative outcomes in education. We are therefore inviting submission of papers for BJET Special Issue located at the intersection of emerging technologies, teaching/learning challenges, and emergent practices

For more information visit the BJET website.

First 2012 face to face meeting in Cape Town - 16th of March 2012

The project team met for the first time in 2012 face to face in Cape Town at UWC to discuss the project status. A particular focus of the meeting was the development of institutional case studies and the preparations of our contribution to the BJET special edition on emerging technologies. The day also included individual reflections on the term emerging technologies, with the aim of developing our own shared understanding of this often elusive term.