Innovative Pedagogy | e-Learning Professor

by Graham Stewart on 15 May 2014 Leave a Comment

The Future is Digital

I was delighted to find this banner in a Pretoria street “The Future is Digital”. The slogan from the South African Department of Communications chimes with the 2014 Educause major IT issues for HE and the strategic direction for e-learning at DUT. Four of the Educause “Top 10” are specially important right now at DUT:

Improving student outcomes through an institutional approach that strategically leverages technology
Assisting faculty with the instructional integration of information technology
Using analytics to help drive critical institutional outcomes
Addressing access demand and the wireless and device explosion
Developing an enterprise IT architecture that can respond to changing conditions and new opportunities

Take a look at the full Educause article (thanks to Nicky Muller for sending it):

https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM1421.pdf

by Graham Stewart on 17 April 2014 Leave a Comment

Online Learning and Innovation – Prof Mike Savage

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.

by Graham Stewart on 27 March 2014 Leave a Comment

FashionOnline @Brickfield

21st Century Fashion Design - Fezile Mdletshe, Kaila Goss and Suheena Singh @Brickfield — 21st Century Fashion Design – Fezile Mdletshe, Kaila Goss and Suheena Singh @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.