Date and Time: Tuesday, 2nd November 2021, 15:00 SAST

Presenter: Professor Laura Czerniewicz, Centre for Learning and Teaching (CILT) Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), University of Cape Town

Session format: Panel discussion 1 hour

Description of the session:  

In this interactive session, we will discuss how best centres of teaching and learning can support educators and students in a post-pandemic university, focusing in particular on what form appropriate and context-specific institutional structures should take.

An analytical review reflects on the ways that centres for teaching and learning in universities are formulated and how they might change to best respond to and address the changing needs of students, academics and institutions in a post pandemic era.

Our Presenter’s Bio: 

Professor Laura Czerniewicz, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching,  Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town

Laura Czerniewicz was the first director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), at the University of Cape Town, (2014 to 2020) having previously led UCT’s Centre for Educational Technology, OpenUCT Initiative and Multimedia Education Group . Her many roles in education over the years include academic, researcher, strategist, advocate, teacher, teacher-trainer and educational publisher. Threaded through all her work has been a focus on equity and digital inequality. These have permeated her research interests which focus on the changing nature of higher education in a post-digital society and new forms of teaching and learning provision. She plays a key strategic and scholarly role in the areas of blended /online learning as well as in open education institutionally, nationally and internationally.

More information about her http://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/cilt/about/laura-czerniewicz

This session has ended – Please see the e/merge Africa YouTube channel for more

Twitter:  @czernie

Resources: 

Blog: https://czernie.weebly.com

Back ground article: Changing Centres of Teaching and Learning an analytical review

Presenter: Dr. Ahmed Tlili,  Co-Director of OER Lab at SLIBNU, China and Associated Editor of the IEEE Bulletin of TCLT

Date and Time: Friday 14 July 2020, 4:00pm SAST/Cairo Time (new time!)

Time converter at worldtimebuddy.com

Description:

This webinar aims to: 

PERFECT 1) present the importance of using educational games and gamification systems to enhance learning outcomes, including motivation, behaviors and engagement of learners; 

2) explore how incorporating learning analytics in educational games can provide smart learning that could be adapted to everyone’s needs;

3) develop a small educational game using the game engine “Construct2”.

Language:Please note seminar language is Arabic  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tlili.ahmed.142

Thank you all who joined this event – we are working on making the recording available on the e/merge Africa YouTube channel

Date and Time: Monday, 8th November: 15:00 – 16:00 SAST

Description of the session:  

Let us check out Jamboard, Ideaboardz and Miro as environments where we can share knowledge and make our thinking visible together. Jamboard and Miro are very flexible environments while Jamboard and Ideaboardz are easiest to start using quickly. All three are available free of charge to colleagues in the education sector.

To join this event please sign up via Zoom

Our Guide’s Bio: 

Tony Carr is an Educational Technologist in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town and convenor of e/merge Africa.