Distance Education

• Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE October 2019 ISSN 1302-6488 Volume: 20 Number: 4

Education: South Africa

• Basic Education Vows to Get Its House in Order by Mayibongwe Maqhina. The Star Page 7.

Language and Literacy

• Silencing the Mother Tongue Makes It Harder for Bilingual Children to Learn English.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers.
• OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives.
• The MIT Press receives a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to develop and pilot a sustainable framework for open access monographs.
• Promoting Mutual Exchange of Open Educational Rdousrces in Higher Education: The OERTest Project.
• “Caring about Sharing”: Copyright and Student Academic Integrity in the University Learning Management System.

Post Schooling

• South African universities should produce more commercial ideas.
• Wits Business School director Sibusiso Sibisi jumps ship.
• All surgery students from five universities fail exam.
• Siyaphumelela Network 2020-2022: Request for Proposals to Become a Partner Institution.

Teaching and Learning

• Making Room for Asset Pedagogies
• South Africa ‘punches above its weight’ in research, says study.
• It’s time to end the era of wasteful and overpriced textbooks.

Technology Enhanced Education

• Be Very Impressed By The Open LMS Of Open University of China — 国家开放大学’s Wei Xiong at MoodleMoot US 2019.
• Marketing for a Massive Online University.
• MOOC Die-Off Coda.
• Badges Need Rigor! (Or do they really?)
•  The promise and the challenges of virtual schools.