Saide Current Awareness
03 October 2022

 

Distance Education

• Newer Theories for Digital Learning Spaces
• What does a turbulent present mean for the future of online education?

Education: South Africa 

• Dark days: Accusations of capture and governance instability rock UCT
• Gauteng parents who applied for grade 1 and 8 school admission in 2023 to be notified about placements via SMS
• Basic Education urged to not let core subjects slide in favour of skills-based curriculum
• Fewer than 30 days to matric final exams, MEC Mbali Frazer says department is ready
• Binge drinking a dangerous ‘norm’ among university students
• Stress levels soar: University students cry for help as load shedding takes its toll on their mental and emotional states
• DBE confident about bold new subject roll-out plans including coding and robotics at primary school level
• School dictionaries a better option than Google for kids to learn meaning of words
• Overcrowding at Lawley Secondary School results in rotational classes
• WOZA Matrics TV Schedule
• Western Cape Education recruits Education Assistants and General School assistants
• Scopa rejects Blade Nzimande's request to keep forensic report into NSF 'graft' under wraps
• Higher education department 'following all cases' of NSFAS fraud
• Massive curriculum shift for schools in South Africa, including new subjects
• Early childhood development centres in SA continue to struggle with registration and access to subsidies
• Meet Wits Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi - from his PhD, nuclear physics, CERN - to discipline

Language and Literacy

• 7 Engaging Literacy Centre Ideas for Teaching Informational Texts  
• PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE TERMS OF TRANSLANGUAGING, BILINGUALISM AND CULTURE.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) – An Equity View
• Online ed and OER: the perfect pairing

Post Schooling

• South African universities need to better support doctoral supervisors
• Against the ‘new normal’ — reflections on universities after Covid-19
• Despite gender progress, African men are shaping the future of higher education
• The merit system at universities is not fit for purpose
• Duality of knowledge paradigms requires institutional agility
• Universities must stop students cheating, and start by investing in them

Skills and Employment 

• WeThinkCode looks to place 400 youth in tech jobs
• The hopelessness of finding a job in South Africa – even if you have a degree
• Scopa must keep the pressure on over National Skills Fund probe
• Lack of unskilled, semi-skilled jobs could fan flames of instability in SA
• Young and unemployed? Here’s how to apply for one of 255,000 vacancies as a school assistant

Teaching and Learning- Global

• Call for Papers - Special Issue on Reframing Assessment in Higher Education in the global South
• Teaching Inclusion Classes
• How to run an ABC workshop
• ABC Learning Design

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Creating a Digital Badge Taxonomy to Foster Shared Meaning
• Technology for Special Needs Children
• LH #67 The Adaptive Edge with Andy Wooler