Distance Education

• How to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching for Distance Learning.

Education: South Africa

• COVID-19 exposes the underbelly of South Africa’s education system.
• Parliament on Umalusi’s Funding challenges.
• German Embassy in SA provides support for online teaching reaching 12,000 TVET lecturers.
• Maths, science made easy.
• Reopening schools is inevitable, but the Department of Basic Education must carry it out smoothly.
• Time to drastically curtail the school curriculum and focus on our early grade learners.
• A plea from parents: We would rather our children repeat the school year than put their health at risk.
• Covid-19 curriculum response: focus on our early grade learners.
• SA worried about sending children back to school, Ipsos finds.
• Five lessons on reopening SA’s schools.
• The department must communicate the same message to prevent confusion.
• Education: A state of unreadiness.
• Schools reopening terrifies me.
• Teacher Unions and Associations Say COVID-19 Plan Lacks Detail.
• Back to School - Will Pupils Be Forced to Return? Department Answers Questions.
• Independent Schools Meet With DBE Over Exemptions As They Prepare to Reopen From 1 June.
• No School Must Be Left Behind in 2020 Recovery Plan - Zero Dropout Campaign.
• We All Need to Get Behind Angie Motshekga to Ensure Schools Can Reopen Safely and Efficiently.
• Minister Motshekga seems to be in denial about the true state of SA schools.

Post Schooling

• Relief fund set up for vulnerable CPUT students.
• NSFAS students waiting for Blade Nzimande on payment holiday.
• Usaf: Call by SAUS to review tuition fees not feasible.

Teaching and Learning

• The Misguided Rush to Reopen Universities.
• 5 Strategies to Enhance Educator and Student Well-Being Right Now.
• What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• How to Build an Online Learning Community: 6 Theses.
• Turning Remote Education Into Online Education This Fall.
• Why the COVID Crisis Is Not EdTech’s Moment in Africa.
• Rethinking the ‘digital’ curriculum: What else should we be aiming for?
• Eastern Cape’s e-learning initiative in jeopardy over awarding of R160m tender.
• How Virtual One-to-One Meetings Are Helping Us Build a Strong Online Classroom.
• Covid-19 Update (29) - Students to receive an additional 15GB of data for next 15 days.
• Did Students Learn As Much During Remote Online Instruction?
• Plans in place to avert cheating in online Unisa exams.