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The African Journal of Information Systems, 2013
This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and ... more This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.
There has been rapid growth in the number of educational technology researchers and practitioners... more There has been rapid growth in the number of educational technology researchers and practitioners within Southern Africa since the late 1990s. However, there is still limited sharing of good practice and fresh thinking between institutions and across the region. Furthermore the cost of attending face to face conferences serves as a barrier to engagement with both regional and global conversations about online and blended
learning. All too often we operate in isolation from related projects within our region, resulting in missed opportunities for shared conversations about practice and possible guiding principles.
The e/merge 2004 online conference arose from a face to face conversation between two practitioners in December 2002 about how to promote online communities and online
collaboration in South Africa. This paper reflects on the experience of preparing for, delivering and evaluating the e/merge 2004 online conference on collaborative blended
learning in Southern Africa (http://emerge2004.net), which was initiated to promote the growth of educational technology communities of practice in Southern Africa. Our role models included online conferences by Group Jazz (http://www.groupjazz.com) for their balance between formal and community growing conversation, conferences by
icohere (http://www.icohere.com) for the integration of synchronous and asynchronous environments and the facilitation models of Nancy White (www.fullcirc.com) and Gilly
Salmon (www.atimod.com) which celebrate the interface between formal and informal learning.
e/merge 2004 facilitated powerful online community of practice interaction among 163 educational technology practitioners and researchers from across Southern Africa and around the world. As far as we are aware this was the first conference of its kind in Southern Africa. The conversations were both synchronous and asynchronous and included both scheduled discussions of selected papers and informal discussions.
The paper shares insights concerning key issues for online conferences such as design of conference spaces, technology choices and facilitation processes. We also draw on an
analysis and coding of some of the online conversations using schemas for the coding of learning and teaching behaviours, and a summary of key themes from post-conference
interviews of participants to explore the nature of the conference experience.
International journal of …, Jan 1, 2010
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This reprint of Facilitating Online is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th J... more This reprint of Facilitating Online is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th July 2009. Jeanne brought her passion, her transformational insight and her materials development expertise to this project. Jeanne was ingenious, courageous, compassionate and beautiful. Her physical challenges could not constrain her soul nor her passions for human connection, deep learning, powerful communication and profound personal and social change. She is greatly missed.
Changing Cultures in Higher Education, Jan 1, 2010
The Center for Educational Technology (CET) is located at the University of Cape Town, which is a... more The Center for Educational Technology (CET) is located at the University of Cape Town, which is a leading South African research and teaching university. This implies great opportunities and challenges since we are poised between the experi-ence of and conditions faced by ...
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2007
Educational technology is being taken up in African countries in difficult conditions, arising fr... more Educational technology is being taken up in African countries in difficult conditions, arising from both national infrastructural challenges and specific challenges faced by the education sector itself. The uptake of ICTs for education is to a large extent dependent on how enabling the national environment is, particularly in terms of the availability of national telecommunications and ICT infrastructure. This is particularly relevant in the developing world (Shabani, 2007). Although the 'digital divide' is said to be shrinking with respect to fixed line telephones, mobile ...
International Journal of …, Jan 1, 2005
This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research fre... more This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research.
Changing Cultures in Higher Education, Jan 1, 2010
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ICT for education and development in …, Jan 1, 2005
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2009
The Infodev Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (2007) across 53 countries described severe cha... more The Infodev Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (2007) across 53 countries described severe challenges to the integration of elearning within higher education institutions. Farrell and Isaacs stated that most "African universities are seriously constrained in the use of ICT by a lack of computer stations and a lack of access to affordable high-speed Internet connectivity" (p23). These basic infrastructure issues may however be easier to address than the limited "human resource capacity to exploit the technology" (p26). In the same year the report on ICTs in Higher Education ...
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2005
ABSTRACT This editorial starts from the context of disparities in access between the North and th... more ABSTRACT This editorial starts from the context of disparities in access between the North and the South and within the Southern African region. The authors then explore the origins of the papers in the e/merge 2004 online conference which was designed to support the growth of communities of practice of educational technology researchers and practitioners across Southern Africa. This special issue represents a shift from a time-bound community of practice event to publication within an ongoing community focussed on the use of ...
This reflective review of some key areas of online collaboration theory will be grounded by examp... more This reflective review of some key areas of online collaboration theory will be grounded by examples from MEG projects which link the literature to operational issues of design, facilitation and delivery. The paper deliberately opens more questions than it answers in areas such as online community, facilitation, communities of practice, virtual teams and the coding and analysis of online conversations.
networkedlearningconference.org.uk
Communities, Jan 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging 'Teaching with... more ABSTRACT: In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging 'Teaching with Technology' staff development model dedicated to growing active educator Communities of Practice (CoPs). This work is led by a team at the Centre for Educational Technology at the ...
Enhancing learning through …, Jan 1, 2006
Communities of practice: …, Jan 1, 2008
CHAPTER 6 TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY A Multifaceted Staff Development Strategy Tony Carr, Glenda Co... more CHAPTER 6 TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY A Multifaceted Staff Development Strategy Tony Carr, Glenda Cox, Andrew Deacon, and Andrew Morrison In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging" teaching with technology" staff development model dedicated to growing ...
The African Journal of Information Systems, 2013
This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and ... more This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.
There has been rapid growth in the number of educational technology researchers and practitioners... more There has been rapid growth in the number of educational technology researchers and practitioners within Southern Africa since the late 1990s. However, there is still limited sharing of good practice and fresh thinking between institutions and across the region. Furthermore the cost of attending face to face conferences serves as a barrier to engagement with both regional and global conversations about online and blended
learning. All too often we operate in isolation from related projects within our region, resulting in missed opportunities for shared conversations about practice and possible guiding principles.
The e/merge 2004 online conference arose from a face to face conversation between two practitioners in December 2002 about how to promote online communities and online
collaboration in South Africa. This paper reflects on the experience of preparing for, delivering and evaluating the e/merge 2004 online conference on collaborative blended
learning in Southern Africa (http://emerge2004.net), which was initiated to promote the growth of educational technology communities of practice in Southern Africa. Our role models included online conferences by Group Jazz (http://www.groupjazz.com) for their balance between formal and community growing conversation, conferences by
icohere (http://www.icohere.com) for the integration of synchronous and asynchronous environments and the facilitation models of Nancy White (www.fullcirc.com) and Gilly
Salmon (www.atimod.com) which celebrate the interface between formal and informal learning.
e/merge 2004 facilitated powerful online community of practice interaction among 163 educational technology practitioners and researchers from across Southern Africa and around the world. As far as we are aware this was the first conference of its kind in Southern Africa. The conversations were both synchronous and asynchronous and included both scheduled discussions of selected papers and informal discussions.
The paper shares insights concerning key issues for online conferences such as design of conference spaces, technology choices and facilitation processes. We also draw on an
analysis and coding of some of the online conversations using schemas for the coding of learning and teaching behaviours, and a summary of key themes from post-conference
interviews of participants to explore the nature of the conference experience.
International journal of …, Jan 1, 2010
RefDoc Refdoc est un service / is powered by. ...
cet.uct.ac.za
This reprint of Facilitating Online is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th J... more This reprint of Facilitating Online is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th July 2009. Jeanne brought her passion, her transformational insight and her materials development expertise to this project. Jeanne was ingenious, courageous, compassionate and beautiful. Her physical challenges could not constrain her soul nor her passions for human connection, deep learning, powerful communication and profound personal and social change. She is greatly missed.
Changing Cultures in Higher Education, Jan 1, 2010
The Center for Educational Technology (CET) is located at the University of Cape Town, which is a... more The Center for Educational Technology (CET) is located at the University of Cape Town, which is a leading South African research and teaching university. This implies great opportunities and challenges since we are poised between the experi-ence of and conditions faced by ...
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2007
Educational technology is being taken up in African countries in difficult conditions, arising fr... more Educational technology is being taken up in African countries in difficult conditions, arising from both national infrastructural challenges and specific challenges faced by the education sector itself. The uptake of ICTs for education is to a large extent dependent on how enabling the national environment is, particularly in terms of the availability of national telecommunications and ICT infrastructure. This is particularly relevant in the developing world (Shabani, 2007). Although the 'digital divide' is said to be shrinking with respect to fixed line telephones, mobile ...
International Journal of …, Jan 1, 2005
This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research fre... more This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research.
Changing Cultures in Higher Education, Jan 1, 2010
Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research.
ICT for education and development in …, Jan 1, 2005
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2009
The Infodev Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (2007) across 53 countries described severe cha... more The Infodev Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (2007) across 53 countries described severe challenges to the integration of elearning within higher education institutions. Farrell and Isaacs stated that most "African universities are seriously constrained in the use of ICT by a lack of computer stations and a lack of access to affordable high-speed Internet connectivity" (p23). These basic infrastructure issues may however be easier to address than the limited "human resource capacity to exploit the technology" (p26). In the same year the report on ICTs in Higher Education ...
International Journal of Education and …, Jan 1, 2005
ABSTRACT This editorial starts from the context of disparities in access between the North and th... more ABSTRACT This editorial starts from the context of disparities in access between the North and the South and within the Southern African region. The authors then explore the origins of the papers in the e/merge 2004 online conference which was designed to support the growth of communities of practice of educational technology researchers and practitioners across Southern Africa. This special issue represents a shift from a time-bound community of practice event to publication within an ongoing community focussed on the use of ...
This reflective review of some key areas of online collaboration theory will be grounded by examp... more This reflective review of some key areas of online collaboration theory will be grounded by examples from MEG projects which link the literature to operational issues of design, facilitation and delivery. The paper deliberately opens more questions than it answers in areas such as online community, facilitation, communities of practice, virtual teams and the coding and analysis of online conversations.
networkedlearningconference.org.uk
Communities, Jan 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging 'Teaching with... more ABSTRACT: In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging 'Teaching with Technology' staff development model dedicated to growing active educator Communities of Practice (CoPs). This work is led by a team at the Centre for Educational Technology at the ...
Enhancing learning through …, Jan 1, 2006
Communities of practice: …, Jan 1, 2008
CHAPTER 6 TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY A Multifaceted Staff Development Strategy Tony Carr, Glenda Co... more CHAPTER 6 TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY A Multifaceted Staff Development Strategy Tony Carr, Glenda Cox, Andrew Deacon, and Andrew Morrison In this chapter, we consider the development of an emerging" teaching with technology" staff development model dedicated to growing ...