Author:Glover, Michael; Czerniewicz, Laura; Walji, Sukaina; Deacon, Andrew; Small, JanetDate:03 Feb 2016For a study being undertaken to investigate if and how educator practices change through MOOC development and engagement with open education,
Activity Theory provides a heuristic to observe contradictions and changing educator practices after ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Small, Janet; Walji, SukainaDate:Jul 2014MOOCs offer opportunities but are also pose the danger of further
exacerbating existing educational divisions and deepening the homogeneity of global
knowledge systems. Like many universities globally, South African university leaders
and ...Read morecb
Author:Mdlulwa, NcediweDate: 2021This research study explored how teachers perceive the potential for online learning opportunities by investigating their experiences of an online course, Education for All: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion Massive Open Online Course (EFA: ...Read more
Author:Deacon, AndrewDate:27 Jul 2017This presentation at the 3rd Learning LandsCAPE conference at Cape Town, 14-16 April 2015 explores how learning analytics have the potential to transform educational research by providing fine-grained data on access, usage and completion of ...Read morecb
Author:Deacon, Andrew; Wynsculley, CathrineDate:2007Seminar presentations, by academics successfully using educational technology to support their courses, form a visible part of many staff development programmes. These events contribute to developing a community of academics that use educational ...Read more
Author:Walji, Sukaina; Deacon, Andrew; Small, Janet; Czerniewicz, LauraDate:01 Jun 2016Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a new form of educational provision occupying a space between formal online courses and informal learning. Adopting measures used with formal online courses to assess the outcomes of MOOCs is often not ...Read more
Author:Bohlmann, Carol A; Prince, Robert N; Deacon, AndrewDate:25 Apr 2017When the National Benchmark Tests (NBTs) were first considered, it was suggested that the results would assess entry-level students’ academic and quantitative literacy, and mathematical competence, assess the relationships between higher ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, SukainaDate:05 Dec 2016MOOCs have been seen as holding promise for advancing Open Education. While the pedagogical design of the first MOOCs grew out of the Open Education Movement, the current trend has MOOCs exhibiting fewer of the original openness goals than ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Glover, Michael; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, SukainaDate:15 Mar 2017The practices and perceptions of educators formed through the creation and running of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provide a case study of how educators understandings of ‘openness’ change (Beetham et al 2012, p 3). We are interested ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Glover, Michael; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, SukainaDate:06 Mar 2017The practices and perceptions of educators formed through the creation and running of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provide a case study of how educators understandings of ‘openness’ change (Beetham et al 2012, p 3). We are interested ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Glover, Michael; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, SukainaDate:19 May 2016The practices and perceptions of educators formed through the creation and running of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provide a case study of how educators understandings of ‘openness’ change (Beetham et al 2012, p 3). We are interested ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Walji, Sukaina; Small, Janet; Deacon, AndrewDate:05 Nov 2014This is a presentation by MOOC Task Team to inform the discussion around MOOCs in the UCT Course provision landscape. The presentation took place at the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CILT), Centre for Higher Education ...Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, Sukaina; Glover, MichaelDate:10 Nov 2017This chapter reports on the investigation into the production and rollout of four Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, and on the experiences of the educators involved in their production. ...Read morecb
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Deacon, AndrewDate:2013The demand for further skills and qualifications in the educational technology field remains strong as the range of technologies increases and their potential use in educational contexts becomes more compelling. Students registering for the ...Read more
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Fife, Mary-Ann; Small, Janet; Walji, SukainaDate:2015Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a flexible and open form of self-directed, online learning designed for mass participation. There are no fees or entry requirements and no formal academic credit is available. While completion rates are ...Read morecb
Author:Marquard, Stephen; Walji, Sukaina; Lester, Soraya; Kefale, Kende; Deacon, AndrewDate:25 Sep 2020Final report of the UCT Emergency Remote Teaching Student Experience Survey 2020, an online survey of student experiences of emergency remote teaching (ERT) during the 2nd term of 2020 (April to July 2020).
The purpose of the survey was ...Read more
Author:Tony Carr; Morrison, Andrew; Cox, Glenda; Deacon, AndrewDate:2007Wikis represent flexible tools functioning as open-ended environments for collaboration while also offering process and group writing support. Here we focus on a project to innovate the use of wikis for collaborative writing within student ...Read more