Current Events:
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Tue 22 May
Physical Learning Spaces
Classroom design has changed little in decades, other than aesthetic improvements such ...
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Wed 23 May
Concept Visualisation Using Mapping
Details to be announced soon.
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Mon 28 May
Creating Your Own Short Videos Using Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows Live Movie Maker is an easy to use video creating/editing software, which is in...
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Thu 31 May
Digital Story Telling in Higher Education - An Introduction
At universities around the world, digital storytelling is being used as a tool for teac...
Future Events:
- Show and Tell Part 1 (Mon 04 Jun)
- Show and Tell Part 2 (Thu 07 Jun)
- Creating Your Own Short Videos Using Windows Live Movie Maker (Mon 11 Jun)
- Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Research (Wed 13 Jun)
- Creating Your Own Short Videos Using Windows Live Movie Maker (Mon 18 Jun)
- Vula Training (Wed 20 Jun)
- Digital Story Telling (Fri 06 Jul)
- Vula Training (Thu 12 Jul)
- Vula Training (Tue 14 Aug)
- Vula Training (Wed 19 Sep)
- Vula Training (Thu 18 Oct)
- Vula Training (Tue 13 Nov)
- Vula Training (Wed 05 Dec)
Articles:
2012-04-26: Who is the 21st Century Student? - Sumarie Roodt
Teaching the New Generation of Students
Educating 21st century students is a challenging task for any educator. This is in part due to the paramount change in learning requirements of this new generation of learners. These stu...
2012-04-19: Riding the Information Tiger - Tony Carr
Dealing with Information Overload
The volume of information available within and across our disciplines is...
2012-04-12: Pedagogy of podcasting - what we did, and why we did it - Dick Ng'ambi
This seminar focused on the pedagogical models for using podcasting to enhance student learning. The seminar dr...
2012-03-29: Flipping the Classroom - Ian Schroeder
Changing the Nature of the Lecture
Just the flavour of the month? Or is there some underlying logic to thi...
2012-03-15: Multilingual Glossaries - Associate Professor Mbulungeni Madiba
Associate Professor Mbulungeni Madiba ,Co-ordinator of the Multilingualism Education Project, presented on the pilot ...
2012-03-22: Online Conferences for Professional Development - Tony Carr
Professional Development with the Aid of Technology
We are all part of global professional, intellectual a...
2012-08-03: Separate or together? Open Research and Open Education - Eve Gray
Separate or together? Open Research and Open Education
We tend to treat open education and open resea...
2012-02-13: The potential relationships between teaching with technologies and higher order cognitive skills improvement: discussing the two intervening variables - Prof Victor Mbarika
The question of whether the use of technologies for teaching and learning improves students' higher order cognitive s...
2011-10-13: Pedagogy of Lecturecasting - Tony Carr
Lecturecasting is the use of audio and visual recordings of lectures as teaching and learning resources. The introduc...
2011-09-22: UCT Global Citizenship programme: Leading for Social Justice - Jen van Heerden, Janet Small and Janice McMillan
The UCT Global Citizenship: Leading for Social Justice Programme is an extra-curricula programme providing students w...
2011-09-15: Telematics: A support stategy for Grade 12 learners in the WCED - Mr Walter Mercuur & Ms Zaahida Hartley
Interactive Telematics Teaching is a 21st century response to learner/teacher support. The principle purpose for this...
2011-08-04: PowerPoint - an approach and a tool
This seminar presented by Sally Burt explored the role of MS PowerPoint as a tool to support lectures and presentatio...
2011-08-11: Creating technology for humans - Gary Marsden
This talk, by Professor Gary Marsden (Computer Science) tackled the issue of why technology can be so enabling and so...
2011-08-25: Unexploited potential of mobile technologies - Dr Cheryl Brown and Prof Dick Ngamabi
Presented by Dr Cheryl Brown and Prof Dick Ngamabi. Previous research amongst university students in South Africa has...
2011-03-04: Learning Networks for Teachers in Education - Dr Marc Coenders
Research shows that most teachers prefer more informal type of learning activities over training. However, in general...
2011-05-12: 365 Days of Openness: UCT OpenContent - Michael Paskevicius
The UCT OpenContent project recently celebrated a year of sharing online and open educational materials from the Univ...
2011-05-19: Beyond the First Five Links: Google's Left-Hand Panel - Ian Barbour
Looking for new ways to motivate students to look beyond the first five links in a search engine? Learn how Google's...
2011-05-26: eTutor Project - An Automated Marker for Programming Languages (Python & C) - Leen Remmelzwaal
Large numbers of students enrolled in courses coupled with limited resources and teaching staff has led teaching staf...
2011-06-02: Increasing options for student learning through the use of mobile devices
The seminar aims to encourage discussion about new options for student learning through the use of mobile devices. T...
2011-06-13: Teaching with Technology Show and Tell Session 1
1.Path modeling to 'publishability' 2.Improving students’ communications skills 3.The use of technology in teaching c...
2011-06-15: Teaching with Technology Show and Tell Session 2
1.Innovative ways to promote teaching and learning within large classes 2.Architectural Technology 3.Student respons...
2011-03-01: Integrating social media into classroom engagement - Prof Vivian Forssman
The Learning and Technology Services team at the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia have bee...
UPCOMING EVENTS IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH
This year we continue our workshop and seminar series starting in February with Prof Underwood's Refworks workshops. ...
2010-12-06: Visit by Professor Sten Ludvigsen; Week two events
Get podcasts and presentations of the second week's events led by Professor Sten Ludvigsen from InterMedia at the Uni...
2010-12-06: Conditions for enrolment and participation in professional knowledge cultures - Monika Nerland
This seminar approached professional knowledge cultures from the position of (novice) practitioners and focus on how...
2010-11-17: Visit by Professor Sten Ludvigsen; Week one events
Get podcasts and presentations of the first week's events led by Professor Sten Ludvigsen from InterMedia at the Un...
2010-10-19: OPEN ACCESS WEEK DigiToool: Introduction to DigiTool
Presented by Janine Dunlop from UCT Libraries
2010-10-07: Thy will be done: Teaching sociology with images
By Johann Graaff from the Department of Sociology, Humanities. The seminar, among other things, illustrated how certa...
Visit by Sten Ludvigsen from University of Oslo
Professor Sten Ludvigsen from InterMedia at University of Oslo will be visiting the Centre for Educational Technology...
2010-09-06: Teaching with Technology Show and Tell: Showcasing good practice
At this year’s Show and Tell, we were privileged to have presentations from the faculties of Law, Health Science and ...
2010-09-02: Multiple choice questions : Assessment of complex processes
In the pursuit of defensible, reliable and cost-efficient assessments, the Faculty of Health Sciences is developing v...
2010-08-26: PowerPoint: an approach and a tool
This seminar presented by Sally Burt explored the role of MS PowerPoint as a tool to support lectures and presentatio...
2010-08-17: OER and higher education in Africa: the potential of open licensing in African universities
This seminar shared the experiences of OER Africa – an initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Educati...
2010-08-02: Creating a technology transparent learning environment
Presented by Oliver Lawrence of Elmhurst College and University of Phoenix
2010-07-29: Mobile literacies: How young South Africans use mobile phones
Dr Marion Walton from the Centre for Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor Ana Deumert from Linguistics, and S...
2010-05-27: Electronic voting systems in education: Clickers at the University of Edinburgh
Daniela Gachago of the Educational Technology Unit, Fundani at CPUT presents on Electronic Voting Systems (EVS), also...
2010-May-17: Nancy White Workshops fully booked
The workshops on communities of practice led by Nancy White on 17th May 2010 are fully booked.
2010-05-13: The Things we Choose to Choose: Notes on the Cultural Uptake of Web 2.0
By Shathley Q Technology is not nearly as important as the popularization of technology. Web 2.0 technologies lik...
2010-04-29: Computer assisted learning with multiple intelligences
This presentation was based on research conducted in Tanzania, which centred on ICT integration in two high schools.
2009-10-01: Open teaching in a digital age
This seminar presented work done by the OER UCT project in the Centre for Educational Technology, which looks at the ...
2009-10-15: Teaching virology with technology
This seminar looks at some of the problems of being an early adopter of electronic teaching technology at UCT.
2009-11-05: Bringing teaching technology to the mathematical sciences...kicking and screaming
Jeff, from the Cosmology and Gravity Group, describes some of his experiences teaching the introductory course in App...
2010-03-18: The Net Generation: Encountering e-learning at university
In this seminar, Chris presented findings from research conducted by the Net Generation Project in the UK.
2010-02-25: Transformative play in 3D learning environments
Quest Atlantis is a 3D virtual environment which is increasingly being used for educational purposes, as Dr Stuckey i...
2009-11-18: Debunking the "digital native" :: MINI CONFERENCE::
Debunking the “digital native”: beyond digital apartheid, towards digital democracy By Cheryl Brown and Laura Czerni...
2009-11-18: Academics greybeards and the Net generation :: MINI CONFERENCE::
Academic Greybeards and the Net Generation BY Derek Smith (Information Systems) This presentation focused on academ...
2009-11-18: Building a global teaching profile ::MINI CONFERENCE::
Building a global teaching profile: Showcasing Open Educational Resources at UCT BY Michael Paskevicius and Michelle...
2009-09-18: Health Sciences::SHOW & TELL
We had the privilege of learning from Melanie Alperstein, Rachel Weiss, Beverley Schweitzer and Sarah Crawford-Brown ...
2009-08-12: Motivations for OER: Lessons learnt from US and Ghana ::SEMINAR::
Why Open Education Resources? Presented by Kathleen Ludewig from the University of Michigan.
2009-08-06: A Teaching Tool for Photogrammetry ::SEMINAR::
Innovation in photogrammetry: Presented By George Sithole.
2009-05-28: Citation Project ::SEMINAR::
This seminar presented by Kevin Williams (Higher and Adult Education Studies and Development Unit) introduced the pil...
2009-05-21: Course Evaluation with Vula ::Seminar::
Roger Brown (Centre for Educational Technology) and Duncan Fraser (Chemical Engineering) talked about the process and...
2009-05-20: Language Learning Tools for the 21st Century ::SEMINAR::
by Dr. Jörg Waltje Director of the Language Resource Center, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
2009-05-18: Global Scholars ::SEMINAR::
Challenges, successes, and the on-going endeavors to build upon cultural exchanges and expand them into higher level...
2009-05-07: Cross Continental Collaborative Curriculum Design And Implementation in an Online Environment ::SEMINAR::
This presentation by Vivienne Bozalek from UWC described a Women's Health and Well-Being post grad module across 5 i...
2009-04-02: Open Access :: SEMINAR
Hussein Suleman presented on Open Access (SLIDES + PODCAST AVAILABLE)
2009-03-11: Vula Survey Results ::SEMINAR::
Vula survey results were presented... (seminar slides available now)
2009-02-19: What's New in Vula ::SEMINAR::
What's new in Vula: New features and improvements (seminar slides now available)
2009-02-02: Development is Broken ::SEMINAR::
Development is 'broken' and mobiles broke it: Paper from Mobiles for Development conference. (Updated with podcast an...
2008-09-18: The isiXhosa Law Wiki Project ::SEMINAR::
Julian Jonker on some thoughts on multilingualism and open education...
2008-09-26: Open UCT? ::SEMINAR::
Eve Grey on "Lessons and way forward from the Open Scholarship Project"
2008-09-11: ICT and Student Empowerment ::SEMINAR::
Facilitating active transformational learning with Dr. Michel Labour - a researcher of online and blended learning en...
2008-09-01: Health Sciences ::SHOW & TELL::
Three Health Sciences staff members presented on how they use technologies in their teaching environments
2008-08-28: What's New in Vula? ::SEMINAR::
Stephen Marquard of CET presented new features currently available on vula: Blogs and LAMS
2008-08-21: Promoting Multilingual Literacy in African Schools ::SEMINAR::
Linking Teachers, Texts, and Technology with Dr. Bonny Norton
2008-08-14 Seminar: Dyslexia, e-Learning and e-Support
Sheila Blankfield is coordinator of the Postgraduate Certificate in Supporting the Adult Dyslexic Learner in Further ...
2008-06-04: Show and Tell 1 & 2 (Upper Campus)
Please find the podcast of the show and tell here...
When Students Make Games
There are many arguments for the place of computer games in education. They often focus on games as a learning medium.
Podcasting for Deep Learning
Podcasting is a way to make digital sound files easily available for download from a web site to computers and MP3 pl...
Mobile: Wirelessly Connected Learning
Deborah Tatar investigates "whether, when, and how individual, interpersonal, and community aspects of being can inte...
New in Vula
Vula has seen marked improvements in some of the existing tools. The Site Stats tool has been improved and the Assign...
Show and Tell 25th July
We had the privilege of learning from Dr Leanne Scott and Professor Graham Barr from Statistical Sciences, Clement Ch...
Show and Tell 11th July 2007
UCT educators from Molecular and Cellular Biology, Management Studies and Mechanical Engineering shared their experie...
Digital Storytelling Seminar
On 12th March Amy Hill of the Center for Digital Story Telling addressed a meeting which included UCT staff, Universi...
Inkundla ye Hlabathi/ World Forum Online
Salim Nakhjavani, Shihaam Donnelly and Cathy Powell from the Department of Public Law shared a preview of their inno...
Open Educational Resources
The OER Commons offers a broad selection of materials that are free and open to use.
Digital Freedom Exposition
Our colleagues at University of Western Cape have organised a Digital Freedom Exposition from April 19th - 20th "to s...
Beyond Distance
The Beyond Distance Conference was held at University of Leicester from 9th - 10th January. It was focussed on "spott...
Library of 1,000 wiki textbooks
Free textbooks for everyone—that's the goal of the Global Text Project, an initiative spearheaded by Rick Watson, a p...
