Distance Education

• Cinching the Divide in Digital Education: Educating our Educators on Distance Learning.

Education: South Africa 

• Stellenbosch University's new e-learning platform offers added advantage to high school students.
• Basic Education officially in charge of ECD.
• Department of Basic Education officially takes over ECD functions.
• Campaign for Real Reform for ECD is calling for a fundamental shift in the sector.
• Academic journey: Importance of parent-teacher-student communication.
• Two New Independent Schools in East London Improves Access to Quality Education.
• Inclusive education: Girls and boys must be treated equally.
• How the Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation provides access to quality education.
• Two new schools worth R71 million to be built in Eastern Cape to improve access to quality.
• UFH empowers Amatole West Maths Teachers following calculator study.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Reconsidering Access: Using Specific Impact Ranking Metrics to Manage Access in Conventional and Open Higher Education.
• Open Textbook Library Reaches 1,000 Titles.
• LCCC faculty redesigning courses to save students textbook costs.
• Growing program reduces textbook costs for UNK students.
• Georgia Highlands wins national award for creating free textbook.
• OER Guest Post: 10 Years of OERx – Part one.

Post Schooling

• TVET colleges need complete overhaul to quell slow growth trajectory.
• The government must do more to stop bogus colleges from operating.
• Democratisation of higher education.
• R1.94 billion philanthropic and Seta funding for 10 SA universities.
• Graduations return to in-person mode after 2 years of virtual ceremonies at Stellenbosch University’s.
• New programmes to enhance leadership in early and mid-career academics.
• Sol Plaatje University increases first-year student enrolment by 80%.
• Student affairs division re-imagines itself for an enriched student experience.
• Universities are still the future of higher education.

Skills and Employment 

• These are South Africa’s most employable skills currently.

Teaching and Learning  

• Students look elsewhere for ‘quality’ education.
• Rising to the challenge of providing all students with high-quality STEM education.
• Students must be taught to engage in academic writing, not to fear the Spanish Inquisition of plagiarism detection.
• Growing together: What's the key to a successful learning community?
• EdTech: A New Way of Teaching and Learning That’s Here to Stay.
• Designing a Professional Learning Team (PLT) program

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Pros and Cons of Self-Hosted LMS.
• Neurodivergence and online learning through the pandemic: What is neurodiversity? (Post 1 of 3).
• Better Internet Series: Architecture and Open Standards.
•  5 Tips on Designing and Developing Impactful E-Learning.
• Upskilling vs reskilling: The difference and its importance to e-learning.
• What's the best way to communicate about a school cyberattack?
• Virtual teaching: How to share resources with your music students.
• Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?
• What Is Causal Inference? An Introduction for Data Scientists.
• Live learning, AI and Web3 are coming for ed tech.
• Chinese folk music: Study and dissemination through online learning courses.
• Defining quality and online learning.

Call for papers 

• NADEOSA Conference 2022: Call for Abstracts.