The Educational Technology Unit at Fundani is offering the second workshop in its 2010 Workshop Series on ""Technology in Teaching and Learning"".
Facilitator:
Prof. Cheryl Hodgkinson-William (UCT)

Date, time and venue:
15 April 2010, 14.00-16.00, room 4.106, Library, Cape Town Campus.

Workshop description:
This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of open educational resources (OER), highlight some of the benefits and challenges. It will also provide hands-on activities to find existing OER through international portals and run through the steps of re-purposing an existing OER or developing a new OER. In these activities attention will be given to alternative licensing options such as Creative Commons and strategies for dealing with 3rd party copyright.

For this workshop 22 places are available. To book this workshop please email Dr Eunice Ivala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Daniela Gachago (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

For more information visit the Educational Technology Unit blog at www.edutechcput.wordpress.com.

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Creating innovative learning spaces using emerging technologies was the theme that carried through at CPUT’S recent Teaching and Learning with Technology Day.

Held on the Bellville Campus, the event was organised by the Educational Technology Unit, Fundani, and the Centre for e-Learning and proved to be a great success.

Understanding the changing technological times that educators are currently faced with, many of the speakers noted the options available to lecturers and also discussed the responsibility that comes with using these new and innovative options.

Lectures and workshops highlighted various factors in using rising technologies. Examples of these include Facebook, YouTube as well as the option of making podcasts available on Blackboard. The options are endless and exciting and are set to transform classrooms and engage students in a way that was not comprehendible a few years ago. 

According to Fundani: “More and more lecturers internationally, nationally, and CPUT are using emerging technologies that are gaining momentum in Higher Education and are not yet fully understood and fully researched, to create exciting learning spaces for their students.”

Keynote speaker, Dean of Informatics and Design, Professor Johannes Cronjè, noted that educators need to look at innovative ways of teaching, making a special mention of Apps that are easily available on most devices and how it can assist the student and lecturer and essentially change the classroom.

The event served as an exciting space and platform to share, showcase, train and engage the various options available and those being used at CPUT and left those who attended excited and inspired.

By: Nurahn Ryklief

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What better place to learn about the use of technology in the classroom than at CPUT.

Each year a group of teacher graduates from Ecole Normale Superieure University in Gabon spend a month at CPUT learning about the use of technology innovation in the classroom and honing their English skills.

The programme has been running for four years and is proving to be a huge success. CPUT recently hosted the group from Gabon, who gave the programme a thumbs-up.

Group leader, Cyprian Moungouli, says the visit to CPUT was life-changing.

“We found so much more than what we were expecting,” he says.

The group had the opportunity to learn from several CPUT technology experts.

Daniela Gachago from the Educational Technology Unit at Fundani gave the graduates an overview of the use of technology at our university.   The teachers also attended a Digital Story Telling Workshop presented by Jolanda Morkel and Penny Gill and UWC’s Sue Basset. Other workshops focused on the use of English in the classroom.

Emerentienne Igabouhi says she is looking forward to returning to the classroom with her new skills.

 “All the courses were useful and we will be able to implement what we learnt in our own classrooms,” she says.

Daniel de Goede from the Graduate Centre for Management, who hosted the group, says the university is looking forward to host the next group of teachers in 2013.

By Candes Keating

Photographs by Clive Galant

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