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NADEOSA (the National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa) announces that its annual conference that will take place on 17th and 18th August 2009 at the Unisa Sunnyside Campus in Pretoria under the auspices of the Department of Teacher Education. The theme is: The Changing Faces of Distance Education and Open Learning. [...] In an earlier blog about Blackboard buying out Angel Learning Systems, I dropped the throwaway comment: ‘I suspect that by the time all the legal issues over copyright and monopoly are resolved, LMSs will be obsolete anyway.’ Professor Wendy Kilfoil, of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, picked up on this and asked the following question: ‘I am [...] Makoe, M. (2009) MXit: How to Encourage and Facilitate Communication Among Students eLearning Africa Newsletter, May 12 This interview with a professor from the University of South Africa describes how instant messaging is being used to encourage collaborative learning. In a long-term study she conducted, she found that isolated students have a need for informal support [...] Johnson, C. and de Beer, M. (2009) African Tourism Industry Needs eTraining e-Learning Africa, Vol. 4, March 12 The researchers Colin Johnson from San Francisco State University and Matilda Sophia de Beer from South Africa’s University of the Free State are currently developing cost-effective training that can be delivered by eLearning and integrate mobile devices as [...] Czerniewicz, L., Williams, K. and Brown, C. (2008) ‘Students make a plan: understanding student agency in constraining conditions’ in In Whitton, N., and McPherson, M. (Eds) Rethinking the digital divide Research Proceedings of the 15th Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2008). Held 9–11 September 2008, University of Leeds, England, UK The paper reports on a [...] |
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