Catch Professor Mike Savage’s public lecture tomorrow (Friday 18 July) at 10 a.m. at the Hotel School Conference Centre. Professor Savage’s work is really cutting-edge. The incorporation of real-time information mapping and making this available via mobile devices has exciting and valuable potential for rural development as well as established agriculture. Tomorrow’s lecture on his findings is of great interest to the DUT academic community, particularly with our present focus on developing e-learning and associated teaching technologies.
FashionOnline @Brickfield
Innovative online classrooms and smartboards are transforming teaching and learning at DUT’s Fashion Department on the Brickfield Campus. Under the leadership of Department Head, Sunthra Moodley, Fashion lecturers are moving to online delivery as an integral part of their teaching practice. Lecturers Fezile Mdletshe, Kaila Goss and Suheena Singh (pictured here) along with Tando Mbanga and Bianca Van Rooyen are providing their students with learning materials and instructional videos on the university’s Blackboard LMS.
Confucius Institute Online
The Confucius Institute’s Online classroom for learning Mandarin is due to open in February. At the recent Confucius Institute Conference held in Beijing, access to the new site was confirmed for early in 2014 to coincide with the arrival of the CI Dean and teaching staff at DUT. At the Beijing conference, Prof Graham Stewart addressed delegates on progress with the E-Learning Project at DUT.