Copyright

• Remote learning underscores need for lessons on copyright, fair use.

Education: South Africa 

• School’s rotation attendance system is not working out – says education expert.
• What is the difference between teasing and bullying?
• Bullying: Questions to ask your child to find out whether they are being bullied.
• We want to be part of the debate about 100% school attendance – Naptosa.
• Pietermaritzburg woman’s lifetime dedication to educating the deprived.

Language and Literacy

• Statement on Fire Damage to Reading Room of UCT's Jagger Library.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• STAR initiative helps students cut costs in UNL classes.
• Innovation Fund proposal will accelerate open educational resources.
• Our OER Epiphany: Advocating for Open Educational Resources as Tools for Affordability and Equity.
• Boosting Adoption of Open Educational Resources.
• Student Council legislation reiterates financial need of U.Va. community, supports access to open textbooks.
• Opinion: Buying college textbooks is an avoidable stress.
• The Challenge of OER and Experiential Learning.

Post Schooling

• Media Statement - Committee On Higher Education Chairperson Sends Message of Solidarity and Empathy to UCT.
• Govt meeting its commitment to fund students, says Nzimande.
• UCT counting the cost after fire guts library.
• 'UCT students are traumatised' - SRC member says fire compounds stressful year.
• UCT students stressed and anxious after evacuation from catastrophic Mother City fire.
• Students face a bleak future after confusion over NSFAS funding.
• Elevating Leadership Development in Higher Education.
• The NWU's finances during Covid-19.
• Mother City fire: UCT’s intellectual heart ripped out after Jagger Library burns.
• Significant archives are under threat in Cape Town’s fire. Why they matter so much.
• Nzimande Welcomes Swift Response to UCT Fire.

Research Opportunity

• Want to Make Education More Innovative? Let’s Invest in R&D.

Teaching and Learning

• Supporting Everyday Learning.
• The implications of testing flexibility on measuring student growth and learning trends.
• Kindergarten Transitions Are Never Easy. But the Pandemic Has Made Them Harder.
• Why Jo Boaler Believes This Math Curriculum Is the Key to Promoting Growth Mindset.
• What the Odd History of ‘Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps’ Says About Education Equity.
• Students take up the cause to push for more financial education.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Automatically Detecting Cognitive Engagement beyond Behavioral Indicators: A Case of Online Professional Learning Community.
• How A Single Platform Enables Successful Co-Teaching and Engagement in Remote Learning.
• Competing with the Internet.
• What has COVID-19 taught us about the barriers to online education?

Upcoming Conferences 

• DETA Conference 2021, 3 - 5 August 2021. Theme:  Reimagining African Teacher Education through Distance for a Post-Pandemic Future.
• Call for Papers:  Nadeosa Virtual Conference 2021. University of the Free State. 11- 13 May 2021. Theme: Preparing for the Future: Shaping Open, Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) in Post School Education and Training (PSET).