African Storybook Project Update
 

We have recently uploaded four videos on to our African Storybook Project YouTube channel on how our stories are used for literacy development. The stories feature Emily Mbhele with children and high school students from the Tholulwazi Literacy Project, Molweni, KwaZulu Natal.

 
 

Global Meeting on Literacy and Sustainable Societies

On the invitation of Dr Edem Adubra, Head of the Secretariat, International Task Force on Teachers for EFA at Unesco, Tessa Welch attended this meeting, and presented on the African Storybook Project as part of the session on innovative teaching and learning of youth and adult literacy embedded in efforts for sustainable development.
 

 

Infusing Critical Thinking Into the School Curriculum

Tony Mays reports on a recent project in Nigeria which seeks to help primary and secondary school teachers infuse critical thinking skills into the everyday school curriculum. Recent curriculum experiences and debates within South Africa related to outcomes-based education as well as an engagement with the literature on critical thinking, informed Saide’s involvement in the project.
 

  AgShare at RUFORUM 11th AGM

AgShare II, an exciting project in agricultural education at university level was recently given an opportunity to present its unique AgShare methodology and the resultant open education resources (OER) to the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM). The presentation was made at the RUFORUM 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM) which took place from 25 – 29th August 2015 in Windhoek, Namibia. Ephraim Mhlanga, the AgShare project leader reports on AgShare participation at the AGM.
 

 

DUT Successfully Hosts Nadeosa 2015

The recent Nadeosa conference was held at the Hospitality School of the Durban University of Technology. The overall theme of the conference was Innovative open learning practices to build a quality integrated post schooling system. An explicit attempt was made in the months leading up to the conference to encourage greater participation by the college sector in the discussions related to this theme and three pre-conference workshops were offered that were designed to speak to this engagement. Tony Mays provides feedback