Copyright

• 80 Academics urge President Ramaphosa to expedite changes to SA’s patent laws.
• Open letter to the EU Ambassador to South Africa on copyright laws.

Distance Education

• Coronavirus - Africa: Global Education Coalition facilitates free internet access for distance education in several.

Education: South Africa

• Maths help for matrics, thanks to student tutors.
• Reopening of schools: Maimane working with Mpofu on court challenge to keep schools closed.
• Legal opposition to opening schools on hold, pending gazetting by Angie Motshekga.
• The education of children with disabilities risks falling by the wayside during the pandemic.
• Limpopo schools face an impossible choice – sanitiser vs basic necessities.
• We won’t force schools to reopen if the necessary PPE is unavailable – Motshekga.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Open Pedagogy and the Trades.

Post-schooling

• R280 million injection to bring relief to missing middle students at public universities.
• 10 Predictions for Higher Education’s Future.
• Wits rejects deregistering claims, Maties and UCT happy with online learning.
• How UKZN plans to open its campuses amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
• NWU comes up with creative solution to screen pupils for Covid-19 using cellphones.
• Wits and UJ students and staff to return to campus soon.
• Fears that R2bn NSFAS funds paid erroneously to students won't be recovered.
• NSFAS students urged to use allowances to buy learning devices.

Teaching and Learning

• Can Active Learning Co-Exist With Physically Distanced Classrooms?
• The Physically Distanced Classroom: A Day in the Life.
• On Pandemic Politics, Pedagogies and Practices.
• Pandemic launches Rhodes University into new method of teaching and learning.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• How the University of Tampa Went Remote ‘Without Missing a Beat’.
• Ramping Up for Remote Instruction.