Copyright

• South Africa Parliament Calls for Comments on Fair Use

Education: South Africa 

• Nearly 500,000 teachers and education sector workers to be vaccinated over 10 days, starting on Tuesday.
• Physical distancing: Most Western Cape schools teaching early grades aren’t ready to reopen full-time.
• The council for educators needs a heavier hand in dealing with the scourge of corporal punishment.
• Time to address the struggles of black learners in private and former white public schools.
• Bullying is deeply entrenched in our school culture and social media ‘Likes’ are a key driver.
• Aspen confirms 300,000 Johnson and Johnson jabs for SA teachers.
• Is the Children’s Amendment Bill about child protection, cost cutting or control?

 Language and Literacy

• The push for mother-tongue teaching in Africa.
• How keeping a diary can help adults learn a foreign language.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Academics must become more engaged in the open access struggle.
• How MasterClass became the style-master of MOOCs.

Post Schooling

• Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education.
• SADC urged to do more about digital transformation in HE.
• Rankings: Strong performance by Egypt and South Africa.
• Covid-19: Survey finds 65% of students reported psychological distress in 2020.

Publishing

• Racially biased academic publishing in need of decolonisation

Teaching and Learning

• The Growing Business of Student Surveillance.
• How lessons learned in delivering courses last year may affect the mode of course delivery this fall.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• FNB’s eBucks partners with Snapplify to enable e-learning resources.
• The problem with online learning? It doesn’t teach people to think.
• EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Artificial Intelligence Use in Higher Education.
• Evolution, rewards, and artificial intelligence.
• ‘Humanise online teaching and learning’.
• Towards inclusive digital literacy and learning.

Call for Papers and Book Chapters

• Learning Design Voices