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Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Higher Education conference

Sep 8, 2015

in Conference

authentic learning, bjet, british journal of educational technology, emerging technology, george veletsianos, gilly salmon, higher education, laura czerniewicz, nick rushby

Last week I attended the Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Higher Education conference at the UCT Graduate School of Business, which had a pretty impressive lineup of keynote speakers: Laura Czerniewicz Jan Herrington Victor Mbarika Nick Rushby Gilly Salmon George Veletsianos The general theme of the conference was the idea of “learning and…
HELTASA conference, 2011 – day 2

Dec 1, 2011

in Conference, Education, Learning, Research, Technology

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, case-based learning, cbl, collaborative groupwork, community of inquiry, conceptual threshold crossing, conflict management, control, conversational framework, cput, discourse, disruption, disruptive technology, emotional resilience, epistemology, garrison, gilly salmon, groupwork, hard technology, heltasa, heltasa11, heltasa2011, higher education learning and teaching association of south africa, interpretive boundaries, laurillard, learning events, learning management system, liberalism, lms, nelson mandela metropolitan university, online learning, online presence, Ontology, pbl, piet naude, port elizabeth, postgraduate supervision, power, problem based learning, public good, scientism, small group learning, social presence, soft technology, student wellbeing, teaching presence, transformative change, troublesome encounters, utilitarianism

Explaining, naming and crossing border in Southern African higher education Prof Piet Naude This was one of the most challenging presentations I’ve ever listened to. I didn’t agree with a lot of what Prof Naude said, but he made me question my own beliefs and biases. Ontology: language is the house of reality (language…