Tony Mays reports on a curriculum
and materials development project recently completed with the University
of Pretoria's Distance Education Unit. |
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The Thutong Portal is currently undergoing a comprehensive revamp
in order to streamline and focus the services that it seeks to deliver
to the South African education community. Donna Preston, the project
manager reports on the changes and new vision. |
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This is an abridged version of a review by Alice Barlow Zambodla
and Tessa Welch commissioned by and first published in Education
as Change volume 11, no.1 July 2007 pp181-184. |
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SAIDE has recently been exploring the functionality of a number
of low-cost computers for use in one of our projects, the Affordable
Access Program. The Program is being piloted in four South African
higher education institutions by the International Partnership for
Digital Publications and project-managed by SAIDE. Frans Pitjeng,
Alice-Barlow Zambodla and Jenny Louw provide an overview of the
devices that have been tested. |
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SAIDE’s Director, Jenny Glennie, was
most honoured to have been invited by UNESCO to join a small group
of ‘visionaries’ to develop a statement on the future
of knowledge acquisition and sharing. The group assembled in June
2007 in the picturesque surroundings of the Kronberg Palace near
Frankfurt, Germany for a one-day workshop.
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