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