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Kharoon Nisha Rasool; Parvathy Naidoo – South African Journal of Education, 2024
In 2015, a Member of the Executive Council (MEC) of the Gauteng provincial legislature, South Africa, introduced the "Classroom of the Future" programme in previously disadvantaged schools, allowing an integration of information and communication technology into classrooms. In this article we focus on the sustainability of ICT in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Sustainability
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Nwosu, Lilian Ifunanya; Bereng, Makuena Clementina; Segotso, Tlotlo; Enebe, Ngozi Blessing – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been the subject of discussion, and in most cases, it has been seen as a threat to jobs and conventional methods of performing certain activities. As a result, concerns over the preparation of the South African educational systems for the 4IR have been raised. Many industries still lack an advanced…
Descriptors: Industrialization, Educational Development, Higher Education, College Instruction
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van de Heyde, Valentino; Stoltenkamp, Juliet; Siebrits, André – Cogent Education, 2017
The paper explores critical success factors (CSFs) in relation to the support structure for an online self-coaching pilot project, by the Centre for Innovative Education and Communication Technologies of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, in collaboration with UWC's Social Work Department and the University of South Africa…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Social Work, Program Effectiveness, Online Courses
Fisher, Julia Freeland; Bushko, Katrina; White, Jenny – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2017
The WISE Report from the Clayton Christensen Institute explores perspectives on the blended learning process through the institute's comprehensive surveys of the three countries. This report touches on a number of school-based efforts to implement educational technology, focusing on whether, and how, a sample of brick-and-mortar schools in Brazil,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Barriers, Educational Technology
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Pool, Jessica; Laubscher, Dorothy – Educational Media International, 2016
This article reports on a design-based methodology of a thesis in which a fully face-to-face contact module was converted into a blended learning course. The purpose of the article is to report on how design-based phases, in the form of micro-, meso- and macro-cycles were applied to improve practice and to generate design principles. Design-based…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Blended Learning, Synchronous Communication, Mixed Methods Research
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Tanner, Maureen; Scott, Elsje – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
This paper describes a flipped classroom approach followed to teach systems analysis, design and implementation at university level. The techniques employed are described. These techniques were underpinned by a theory of coherent practice: a pedagogy that provides a framework for the design of highly structured interventions to guide students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Homework
Monobe, Ratau John – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes the results of a survey about the most critical issues facing the implementation of IT (information technology) ITE (initial teacher education) in all the HBUs (historically black universities) in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Over 250 responses were received and both universities in the Limpopo Province were…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Program Implementation
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Bhanji, Zahra – Comparative Education Review, 2012
The purpose of this article is to explore Microsoft Corporation as a new international actor shaping educational reforms and practices. This study examines how the implementation of Microsoft's global Partners in Learning (PiL) program varied and was mediated by national politics and national institutional practices in two different contexts,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Policy
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Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael – Distance Education, 2012
Like many universities worldwide, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has joined the open educational resources (OER) movement, making a selection of teaching and learning materials available through its OER directory, UCT OpenContent. However, persuading and then supporting busy academics to share their teaching materials as OER…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Graduate Students, Student Role
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Hartley, M. S.; Treagust, D. F.; Ogunniyi, M. B. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This study addressed one aspect of a national strategic recommendation in South Africa by examining the effectiveness of computer-based outreach programmes in terms of how the programmes were implemented and learners' perceptions of the classes. The role that the computer centres played at two schools was examined and the research endeavoured to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
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Kinuthia, Wanjira; Dagada, Rabelani – International Journal on E-Learning, 2008
This article reports on the findings of a research study that was conducted to explore the types of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in use in higher education in South Africa. Specifically, the goal of the study was to explore how e-learning is being used for teaching and learning purposes. Data were collected from interviews with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis
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Fresen, Jill W.; Hendrikz, Johan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This paper reports on the re-design of the Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) programme, which is offered by the University of Pretoria through distance education (DE) to teachers in rural South Africa. In 2007, a team re-designed the programme with the goal of promoting access, quality, and student support. The team included an independent…
Descriptors: Workshops, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Rural Schools
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Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources
Criticos, Costas – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 1999
Introduces a model of educational technology that uses a clockwork radio as a metaphor for low- and high-tech strategies that can be applied to development and technology transfer in education in South Africa. Highlights landmark developments and principal features of three components of the post-apartheid education system--curriculum, resources,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Environment
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Dhurbarrylall, Roshun – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
Correspondence institutions in United Kingdom and South Africa have enrolled Mauritian students in various courses and programs at different levels for more than 50 years. The institutionalization of second-generation distance education (DE) using print and audiovisual media had modest beginnings with the inception of the Mauritius College of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Audiovisual Aids
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