Tag: chec
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CHEC course: teaching and learning (day 4)
Yesterday was the final day of the CHEC short courses on teaching and learning. While the whole module was useful, I found each day to be difficult in the sense that we were trying to cover some really big topics (e.g. reflection, educational theory, etc.) in a very limited set of time. I think that…
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CHEC course: teaching and learning (day 3)
Yesterday’s CHEC session was presented by Jeff Jawitz from UCT, who looked at tools for addressing diversity in the South African university classroom. I’ve seen Jeff present before at conferences and he’s got a really relaxed way of introducing and working with often highly controversial topics, like race and gender. I was especially excited to…
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CHEC short course: teaching and learning (day 2)
Yesterday was the second day of the CHEC short course for Teaching and Learning. Here are my notes: Teaching teaching and understanding understanding (Google video, I’m not sure how much longer it’ll be available on that service) How do you create an environment in which students are engaged? What does it mean for students to…
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CHEC short course: teaching and learning
Today was the first day of a short course looking at teaching and learning and is pretty innovative in that it is co-ordinated by, and open to, academics from several higher educational institutions in the Western Cape. It’s being organised by the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). The course runs for the next month, during…