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Date and Time: Thursday 7 October 2021, 13:00 PM SAST

Session format: interactive / workshop session  

Presenter: Emeritus Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Description:  Given the rapid move to online engagement in the education sector, it is worth pausing to consider how we undertake mentoring of students, young researchers and/or peers in an online environment.

As a mentor and e-mentor in international, national and institutional projects, Emeritus Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams will facilitate a discussion (with some input) around the formal and informal ways of mentoring.

She invites you to submit any question about e-mentoring that you might have directly to her at [email protected]

Presenters Bio:  

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Emeritus Associate Professor Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams taught Online Learning Design, Advanced Research Design and Researching Higher Education courses to postgraduate students and supervised Masters and PhD students in Educational Technology, Open Education and Higher Education Studies

She holds a PhD in computer-assisted learning and has taught and supervised in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs) in education since 1994, first at the University of Pretoria, then at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and then at UCT. In addition she was the Principal Investigator of the IDRC-funded Research in Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project which investigated the adoption and impact of the use of open educational resources in 21 countries in the Global South.  She is an advisor on the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project, the former Principal Investigator of, and now an advisor on, the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project that is investigating the readiness towards open learning of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Higher Education (HE) institutions in South Africa. She was a UNESCO Chair of Open Education and Social Justice. In November 2019 Cheryl was awarded the Open Education Consortium Leadership Award and was interviewed for Leaders and Legends of Online Learning podcast. Cheryl took early retirement at the end of January 2020, but is still active as a consulting researcher and an Open Education and Social Justice advocate.

Facebook page:     https://www.facebook.com/chodgkinsonwilliams

Twitter: @CherylHW

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Session Type: Webinar (1 hour)

Date: Friday, 12 November 2021; 14:30 – 15:30 SAST

Description of webinar: 

One of the challenges of online assessment is maintaining the integrity of the assessment. Universities which moved to online teaching and learning during the pandemic are increasingly turning to online proctoring technologies which require students to confirm their identity and accept some degree of virtual monitoring. Critics of online proctoring regard this approach as unjustified surveillance. 

We will consider:

1) The ethical debates surrounding online exam proctoring

2) Experiences of introducing online proctoring

3) Experiences of introducing online invigilation of exams

We will keep to the same conversational style as used for Online Assessment Conversations – Part 1. There will be opportunities for questions and other contributions by participants in this event.

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Panellist Bios

Our Panel:

Lubabalo Badi, joined the Learning Technologies Team as a Consultant in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), Univerisity of Cape Town, June 2010. Prior to this, he worked as an ICT Staff Training Facilitator at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from which he holds a BCom & BCom (Hons) in Information Systems. After joining CILT, he was exposed to a variety of Learning Technologies, and over time developed a keen interest in the use of Educational Technologies, and he believes that a lot can be achieved using ICTs in teaching & learning for both. He is currently completing a mini dissertation, focusing on the Academics experiences of and approaches to teaching with Lecture Capture across different disciplines.

Dr Cheng-Wen Huang is a Senior Lecturer based in the Academic Staff Development team, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town. She is currently working on the University Capacity Development Grant (UCDG) Project 10: Enabling Student Success Through Transformed Programmes of Assessment and a sub-project of the Learning Platforms Update Project (LPUP) on course evaluations. She has previously worked on the Cases on Open Learning (2020) project and the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership in Training in Action (2016) project. Cheng-Wen has a research background in multimodal social semiotics, argumentation, academic literacies, digital literacies, open learning, assessment and social justice.  

Dr Upasana Gitanjali Singh, University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa, is an experienced Lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Her passion is international collaboration and networking, hence she has successfully organised and hosted 5 international conferences in Durban and Mauritius since 2016. 7 MoUs for UKZN, with International HEIs, have been championed by her since 2016. She has delivered 8 keynote speeches at International conferences since 2016 and visited 8 international HEIs as a guest speaker for IT, Engineering and WIE related events. 2 successful WIE events have been arranged by her since 2018, where over 350 female learners were motivated to adopt STEM careers, by a high calibre local and international speakers. With a particular interest in Digital Teaching and Learning she has empowered over 154 UKZN academics in the adoption of tools available in Moodle to support Teaching, Learning and Assessment since 2018; as well as conducted 4 workshops related to Technology in Education, since 2015.

Neil Kramm is based at the Educational Technology Unit in the Centre for Higher Education Research,Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University. Neil is passionate about academic development and infusing technology into teaching and learning.  He enjoys working with innovative technology solutions and implementing tech solutions that enhance teaching and learning. He is an active researcher on issues relating to educational technology, in particular, how technology is incorporated into teaching and learning.

Dr. Nicola Palitt coordinates the efforts of the Educational Technology Unit in the Centre for Higher Education Research,Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University and offers professional development opportunities for academics to use technologies effectively in their roles as educators and researchers. Nicola supervises postgraduate students and co-teaches on formal courses in Higher Education. She enjoys meeting EdTech practitioners and researchers from across the globe. 

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Description:  Blended and online learning policies in African higher education is an important topic. It would be interesting to understand if African Universities are prioritizing the development, implementation and institutionalization of these policies.  In this Two hours webinar, the presenters will contrast some blended and online learning policies from several Universities within and without Africa. The linkage and relationship with other policies within a university and the infrastructure required and other aspects to have a good blended and online learning policy.  It will also be an opportunity to know how the Association of African Universities (AAU) supports  or can support the development, implementation and institutionalization of these policies and what the future holds post COVID 19.

Our Presenters:

Prof. Karen Meyers-Ferreira: is the Coordinator Modern Languages/Linguistics of the Institute of Distance Education (University of Swaziland) since October 2010. She obtained various qualifications: MA Romance Philology (French-Spanish), Honours Portuguese, Post-Graduate Diploma Translation (French-English-French), MA Linguistics, LLM Degree (Legal aspects of new technologies), PhD in French (feminine Francophone autofiction). She has published a monograph on Francophone autofiction, several articles (autofictional feminine writing, crime fiction, 20th and 21st Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone African authors, distance and e-learning), participates regularly in international conferences and is a keen translator and interpreter.

E-portfolio: http://karenferreirameyers.wix.com/midt-eportfolio-kfm

Online presence: https://www:researchgate.net/profile/Karen_Ferreira-Meyers

https://uniswa.academia.edu/KarenFerreiraMeyers

 https://www.linkedin.com › karen-ferreira-meyers-638a5b79

Profile from University of Eswatini Staff page

 Full Resume 

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/karen.ferreirameyers

Ms. Nodumo Dhlamini: is a Zimbabwean national who lives and works in Ghana. She is employed as the Director of ICT Services and Knowledge Management at the Association of African Universities (AAU) Secretariat. Nodumo holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics & Computer Science) and a Master of Business Administration.

Twitter: @NodumoDhlamini

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dhlaminin

Dr. Nicola Palitt: Coordinates the efforts of the Educational Technology Unit in the Centre for Higher Education Research,Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University and offers professional development opportunities for academics to use technologies effectively in their roles as educators and researchers. Dr. Pallitt provides learning design support and consultation in relation to teaching with technology (technology integration) and blended and online teaching and learning. She also supports lecturers to design appropriate technology-mediated learning experiences for their students. Nicola supervises postgraduate students and co-teach on formal courses in Higher Education. She enjoys meeting EdTech practitioners and researchers from across the globe. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicola.pallitt

Twitter: @nicolapallitt 

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