Monthly Archives: March 2015

e/merge Africa review session – new time

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Please notice: New time for this event. If you already registered we already have your details. If you would like to take part please use the form below. 

You are invited to our e/merge Africa review session on Thursday 12 March 2015 at 3 pm (GMT +2 Your location), where e/merge Africa Convenor Tony Carr and Project Manager Jakob Pedersen will review highlights of 2014 and announce events until May 2015. The event will take place in an Adobe Connect live meeting room.

In 2014 e/merge Africa started regular online activities. Across the sixteen professional development events held by e/merge Africa there were signups from 691 unique individuals across 54 countries including 536 unique individuals from 27 African countries. There were 249 unique individuals (including 177 from Africa) who actively participated in events by posting messages in the discussion forums or Facebook or by appearing in live online events. We would like to put some words on these and other successes have experienced through the year and invite you to give your input on where you think the project should be heading.

 

Transform 2015 Research Colloquium – now open for registration!

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We are very excited to announce three very exciting keynotes and to open free online registration for the Transform 2015 Research Colloquium. Transform 2015, with the theme of  “Transforming Pedagogical Practices in African Higher Education with blended and online learning” will be held online from 6-10 April 2015. Transform 2015 is a collaboration between The African Virtual University, the e/merge Africa network and the Educational Technology Inquiry Lab at University of Cape Town.

Transform 2015 will facilitate live and asynchronous encounters with some of the most interesting work by emerging and established educational technology researchers in and from Africa. We are planning for up to 20 peer reviewed and invited presentations including three three keynotes from highly respected researchers:

Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams from the ROER4D Project, based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa will present on Open Educational Resources and Pedagogical Practices in African Higher Education: A perspective from the ROER4D Project.

Associate Professor Wanjira Kinuthia from Georgia State University, United States will present a keynote entitled Learning Design for Personal Learning Environments: Engaging Emerging Technologies to Transform Online and Blended Instruction in African Higher Education

Associate Professor Dick Ng’ambi heads the ETI-Lab at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  His keynote is Why higher education in Africa produces square pegs for round holes: a call for innovative approaches.

You are invited to join Transform 2015 to connect with colleagues across Africa and the world in learning about some of the latest e-learning research findings from our continent and about how we can become more effective researchers.