Teaching with Technology. UCT Centre for Educational Technology

2013-04-04: Piloting e-portfolios in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment - Vanessa Watson, Kobus Van Zyl, Daniel Coulson, Karen Le Jeune & Lisalokuhle Mbobo

In 2012 EBE piloted e-portfolios in two departments, with the hope of expanding their use in these departments an...

2013-03-28: Gamifying Lectures - James Gain

Gamification involves applying motivational techniques from computer games, such as leaderboards, ranks and achie...

2013-03-07: Using Mobile Devices in Higher Education - Ian Schroeder

This seminar provided an overview of the impact of mobile devices in Africa and South Africa. Options and opportu...

2012-11-15: The Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies (SCALE-UP) Project - Prof Robert Beichner

How do you keep a classroom of 100 undergraduates actively learning? Can students practice communication and teamwork...

2012-11-05: Relating to practice: Examining South African and Australian teachers’ beliefs about selection and integration of technologies to support learning - Sarah Howard

To become active and productive citizens in the 21st century, young people require the capacity to select, incorporat...

2012-10-11: Teaching With Vula - Learning from the 2012 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Awards - Roger Brown and Ian Schroeder

Vula is the local UCT version of Sakai. Since 2008 the Sakai community globally has used the Teaching With Sakai Inno...

2012-09-27: Numeric - Taking the Khan Academy into low bandwidth environments - Andrew Einhorn

The Khan Academy is an outstanding learning platform that is gaining traction in the United States and around the wor...

2012-09-25: Evolution of the Flipped Classroom - Ian Schroeder

Opportunies for learning presented by the flipped classroom.

A quick overview of the flipped classroom...

2012-09-13: Learning Analytics: Ways of Visualising Educational Data - Andrew Deacon

Analytics is a buzzword that encompasses the analysis and visualisation of data. The current interest results from th...

2012-08-30: Concept Mapping for Learning - Dr Steve Walsh

Concept maps are graphical representations of a knowledge domain. Concept maps have strong psychological and theoret...

2012-08-23: Understanding the impact that lecturecasting can have on student learning - Brandon Collier-Reed & Jenni Cas

This seminar presented an analysis of the use of lecturecasting in two courses in engineering. In these courses a mix...

2012-08-16: Digital Literacies: Literacies of the Digital - Cheryl Brown

Technology is a core component of learning at UCT. Whether it's used extensively in a course or not, students need to...

2012-05-22: Using an online conference to grow a professional network and develop research capacity - Tony Carr

Online conferences provide a convenient way to learn with and from colleagues and leading experts across time and spa...

2012-07-26: Knowledge Dissemination through Open practices: Lessons learned at the University of Michigan - Ted Hanss

This talk provided an overview of Open.Michigan, a University of Michigan initiative established in 2007 and dedicate...

2012-04-06: Teaching with Technology Show and Tell Session 1

1.Using technology to help students build discipline knowledge and academic literacies 2.Enhancing students learning ...

2012-07-06: Teaching with Technology Show and Tell Session 2

1.Using Blackberry Devices in Mathematics Tutorials by Anita Campbell 2.Using Adobe Connect to create interactive vid...

2012-05-31: Digital Story Telling in Higher Education - An Introduction - Sarah Crawford-Browne

At universities around the world, digital storytelling is being used as a tool for teaching; developing simple mu...

2012-05-22: Physical Learning Spaces - Sally Bowes

Classroom design has changed little in decades, other than aesthetic improvements such as colour, better lighting...

2012-05-10: OER for Assessment and Credit for Learners - Rory McGreal

The presentation described the work of the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Education Resource (OER)...

2012-05-08: The Use of Social Media in Teaching - Marian Pike

The presentation reported on delivering a lecture via Twitter (World First) as well as the use of Facebook (pages and...

2012-05-08: OER Topics - Rory McGreal

The UNESCO Chairs initiative, lead by Rory McGreal, UNESCO/COL Chairholder in OER (Open Educational Resources) at At...

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 educ...

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...

2010-10-21: OPEN ACCESS WEEK Appropriately open

Presented by Dave Duarte

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 ...

2009-08-13: Effective Presentations ::SEMINAR::

Using PowerPoint effectively!

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...

2009-04-23: Podcasting ::SEMINAR::

Presented by Dick Ng'ambi and Annette Lombe.

2009-04-16: Facebook - What are Students Doing :: SEMINAR

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)

2009-03-12: Classroom 2.0 ::SEMINAR::

Dave Duarte on Classroom 2.0

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...

2008-11-17: Mini Conference

Please find the podcast of the CET mini-conference here...

2008-10-16: Staff Blogging at UCT ::SEMINAR::

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...

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