Education: South Africa 

• The backpack is too heavy: The baggage schoolchildren are carrying into 2021.
• Light in the darkness: how South African schools should cut their electricity costs.
• Online learning must be central to SA’s future education system.
• Education Department gazettes new school regulations.
• Educational technology booms in SA.
• Why the Covid-19 pandemic could result in the emergence of different kinds of schools.
• School dropout crisis in Eastern Cape due to Covid-19.
• Marking of matric exam scripts to be completed ahead of schedule, says dept.

Language and Literacy

• Tackle Reading Difficulties Using Data and Instruction Based in the Science of Reading.
• SA lecturer becomes youngest recipient of prestigious Dutch literary award.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Towards Understanding the Students’ Acceptance of MOOCs: A Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT).
• MOOC As an Enabler for Achieving Professional Competence: Problem-Solving Aspect.
• Interesting Approach to Ethical License Rules.
• Lesson Plan: Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb”.

Post Schooling

• The mismatch continues between PhD holders and their career prospects.
• HE can do more to transform conflict and build peace.
• Minister Blade Nzimande responds to the public letter sent by Mr Bantu Holomisa to the President titled “The Auditor General’s Final Management Report…”
• Endless university registration queues a thing of the past.
• KZN government plans to rename Endaleni TVET College after broadcaster Welcome Nzimande.
• MultiChoice invests R26m in bursary programme.
• Trouble looms in higher education as Covid-19 compounds issues affecting enrolment, inclusivity.
• Unisa assures students that registration, application concerns will be addressed.
• Unisa semester change raises students' ire.
• DUT honours staff and students for making envision 2030 a reality.
• DUT hosts data day awards.
• Union calls on universities not to abuse workers by calling them back to unsafe campuses.

Science and Technology

• South African Technology Network is renamed Technological Higher Education Network South Africa 

Skills and Employment

• Creating Rich Transcripts for Career Activation.

Teaching and Learning

• What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?
• Thinking about students with disabilities in the pandemic.
• Academic responsibility: The changing mission of HE.
• African academics may perish even when they have published.
• Opinion: Education must act on advances made during lockdowns.
• Randy Ziegenfuss on Learner-Centered Leadership.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• An Intelligent Computer System for Assessing Student Performance.
• Deep Learning Pioneer Geoff Hinton on his Latest Research and the Future of AI.
• How Datacasting Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide.
• Learning with — and about — AI technology.
• Metrics in Learning Analytics.
• The Hidden Costs of Connectivity: Nature and Effects of Scholars’ Online Harassment.
• Principles for Remote Instruction: Notes from a #TLAC Masterclass.
• Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference?
• Should Parents Also Know How to Use E-Learning Platforms? 
• 7 pillars for quality education online.