COL Board of Governors' Meeting

Jennifer Glennie reports on the Commonwealth of Learning's (COL) Board meeting in Vancouver in May 2006.

Quality Assurance and eLearning: A CHE/SAIDE Project 2005/2006

The aim of this project was to achieve a better understanding of how eLearning is evolving in South African higher education institutions and to ensure that emerging eLearning practices are taken into account in the Higher Education Quality Committee's quality assurance processes – programme accreditation, institutional audit, and quality promotion. Tessa Welch reports.

Distance Education Policy-making : Part Two

SAIDE recently concluded the Southern African Regional Learning Centre (SARDEC) on-line course in Distance Education Policy-making. During this time, SARDEC has been formally renamed as the SADC Distance Education Centre. Tony Mays , the course leader reflects on lessons learned from the course.

The ECD Fundamentals Project

SAIDE, in collaboration with partners Woz'obona and COUNT, has recently published two volumes of training courses for ECD practitioners, in Communications and Mathematics fundamentals respectively. The courses are designed to meet Level One National Qualifications Framework (NQF) requirements. They are published as open source materials, downloadable from the Internet, and may be used freely by non-profit organizations and public education institutions in courses that they offer. Sheila Drew and Ian Moll elaborate on the project.

Resources for New Ways of Learning: A Manual for Developers of Learning Resources

During 2005 and 2006, as part of the Khanyisa Project SAIDE conducted a series of workshops to build the capacity of a group of educators from Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in Limpopo in course design and learning resource development. From the outset we envisaged the need for a manual to support people who participated in the workshops as well as their colleagues. This manual incorporates many of the support materials we developed for the workshops and other information that may be useful to anyone involved in the acquisition and development of learning resources. Christine Randell reports.  

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SAIDE Current Awareness Service