Enriching online learning experience: the three ‘presences’
It is clear from arguments on e-learning that whilst technology is a valuable medium of learning, the human element is critical in terms of creating the right environment for learning to take place. The role of the teacher in structuring Web content, in designing learning activities that promote high order thinking skills, and in providing an opportunity for sharing and collaborating remains... more
How People Learn: A Learning Spiral
SAIDE works within a constructivist framework of learning. This article provides a theoretical basis for the notion of a learning spiral designed into learning materials. more
Learners and Learning - Section Five: How Can Teachers Structure Learning?
This module discusses structured learning specifically methods that teacher can utilize in their learning programmes with the outcome of ensuring learners easily comprehend the subject matter. Referred to also as teaching with leaening in mind this module juxtaposes between teaching to remember and teaching to understand more
Being a Teacher Video
Part of the Being a Teacher module is a 47 minute long video which introduces viewers to the perceptions, doubts and concerns of student teachers about their choice of career. Through a range of interviews with two celebrities and teachers, as well as clips of classroom teaching and school management practices, we explore the role of the teacher as a knowledge worker; care giver; and change... more
Learning About Sustainable Change in South Africa: The Jika iMfundo Campaign 2015 - 2017
Jika iMfundo - a NECT funded pilot to improve education outcomes in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa studied how classrooms, schools and districts have changed; what has been learned from previous initiatives; and needs to be done to improve interventions in the future. more
Being a Vocational Educator: A Guide for Lecturers in FET Colleges
This guide is about enabling craftspeople (those qualified in particular vocations as say plumbers, electricians, etc.) to develop the skills and knowledge required to successfully fill the roles that are necessary for a vocational educator and to thus shift the emphasis from vocational identification to identification as a vocational educator. Key to this process is the examination of... more
Strengthening Critical Value Chains with Agshare Open Knowledge Agshare II Convening 2015Strengthening Critical Value Chains with Agshare Open Knowledge Agshare II Convening 2015
The purpose of the AgSgare convening was to provide an opportunity for project teams: * Makerere College of Communication and Information Science (CoCIS) – Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge * Makerere College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB) – Dairy Hygiene * Haramaya Department of Agricultural Information and Communication Management (AICM)-... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams with Accompanying Toolkit
One of the important lessons learnt in our research has been that a new paradigm for schools needs to become entrenched – one in which schools are conceptualised as centres of care and support. This notion is not a new one; rather, it is well rooted in existing policy. The need to make the shift from a narrow focus on what schools do and how they are led, to the notion of schools as centres... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Five - Making learning time and space for large classes
Section Five builds on concepts developed throughout the module and on the idea that how teachers solve problems relating to space and time depends on what their teaching purpose is and on who the learners are. By the end of this section, you should be able to: * see how crowded space hinders teaching and learning; * use your judgement in developing an appropriate approach to arranging... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Three - School time and space: How school teaching is shaped by arrangements of external time and space
Section Three focuses on external arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about different ways of arranging time and space at schools and to understand how these arrangements both help and hinder teaching: • external time and space; • structuration; • order and chaos... more
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