Saide Current Awareness
10 August 2022

Distance Education

• Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders
• All things research in open distance and eLearning by Professor Asha Kanwar
• Keynote Address: “Systematic Reviews in Open, Distance, and Digital Education Research” by  Olaf Zawacki-Richter 

Education: South Africa 

• Here’s the planned school calendar for 2025 – and two big changes that should be in effect by then
• A look at the new R140 million school built in South Africa – which includes 32 ‘smart classrooms’
• The future of education in Africa rests on digital transformation
• Big shift in schooling in South Africa
• The life of a 15-year-old girl: ‘Gender inequality, societal pressures, mental health issues are killing us’
• Telkom Foundation is coding the future
• Nearly 600 000 online school admissions recorded in Gauteng
• KwaZulu-Natal Education Department owes municipalities nearly half a billion rand for services rendered
• New early childhood care and education publication to launch

Language and Literacy

• South Africa: Women's Month - Change SA's Language Learning Policy to Decolonise Education Curricula
• Science of Reading: Where Rhetoric Meets Reality

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• An African Network for Learning Analytics Research
• Open Educational Resources in the UK
• Rodríguez: Alternatives to paying for pricey textbooks

Post Schooling

• Not sure which career direction to take after matric? We ask the experts for some advice
• Youth in SA already flexed their Arab Spring muscle through #Feesmustfall
• Wonders are ready to be discovered at the North-West University
• Universities could be downgraded, or closed, under new draft rules to differentiate colleges
• Women have always trailed men in research output: how COVID made the situation worse
• FULL LIST OF TVET COLLEGES AND TVET COURSES FOR STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 2022-2023 I TVET APPLICATION

Skills and Employment 

• Ticking time bomb: The obstacles stalling the training of nurses in South Africa
• Metal group leads the charge in skills development
• Youth urged to register on government online recruitment system

Teaching and Learning

• ‘Prioritise qualified teachers’
• New book on Community Engagement Research in SA
• How the Arts Can Save Education

Technology Enhance learning

• Moodle Teachers – How to add resources with different views in the course
• EdTech Monday: Digitizing Higher Education: Opportunities & Challenges
• Edtech is killing us: Random notes on a Neil Selwyn talk about edtech and climate crisis
• Blackbird Provides an Innovative Way for Anyone to Teach Coding
• Five fun tutor activities to help get to know your students at the start of the academic year.
• Data literacy skills: what they are and how do we teach them to our students?
• How to Customize Fonts and Formatting in Google Forms