Copyright

• Blind SA Constitutional Challenge Of The Copyright Amendment Bill.
• President Cyril Ramaphosa refers Copyright and Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills to Parliament.
• South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill Returned to Parliament for Further Consideration.

Distance Education 

• Getting to 100% student engagement in distance learning.
• “In Depth” With Laurence Fishburne Examines How Distance Learning Could Be the Future of American College.

Education: South Africa

• Calls to suspend schooling grow as Covid-19 surfaces in classrooms.
• Can South Africa’s Early Childhood Development sector be saved?
• Cosas calls on education department to close schools, prioritise matrics.
• 132 Eastern Cape Schools Closed Due to COVID-19.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• You can publish open access, but ‘big’ journals still act as gatekeepers to discoverability and impact.
• Sharing Openly Licensed Content on Social Media: A Conversation with GLAM.
• Critical Questions for Open Educational Practices.
• Inclusive open education: presumptions, principles, and practices.
• The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes.
• Let the learning begin — a WHO open-access platform could transform COVID-19 response.

Teaching and Learning

• Teachers need opportunities to heal before the school year begins.
• It is a Challenge to Provide Disability-Inclusive Education. But it is Worth it.
• E-learning Divide Places World’s Disadvantaged Children at Risk of Dropping Out.
• Education Cannot Wait Interviews Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-general of the United Nations.
• The five common myths about #InclusiveEducation.
• The impacts of internal displacement on education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Who opens online distance education, to whom, and for what?
• Free Coursera access for UJ students and staff.