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Nola Chambers; Petrus J. de Vries; Amy M. Wetherby – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
In low-resource settings, non-profit organisations play an essential role in providing services and support for families with young children with autism. However, resource constraints limit access to quality training in evidence-based interventions. Web-based training may help fill this gap. This study examined the feasibility, acceptability and…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Nonprofit Organizations, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children
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Mogamat Noor Davids; Michael Van Wyk; Zingiswa Jojo; Matshidiso Joyce Taole; Mantsose Sethusha; Karel Prins – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
With the closure of educational institutions during COVID-19, some leadership and management teams resorted to technology for online teaching. However, for the teaching practicum (TP) module, the move to online required specially designed interventions, resulting in a variety of different TP COVID-19 configurations. Fortuitously, at the outbreak…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Oriented Programs
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Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2021
The fundamental study of physics has played a crucial role in helping to understand natural phenomena and biological processes throughout history. However, physics as a discipline has not advanced at an equal pace around the globe. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), physics research faces major challenges including gaps in human capital, infrastructural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Partnerships in Education, International Cooperation
MacDonald, Iain S.; Bullen, Mark; Kozak, Robert A. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
A qualitative research project was conducted to evaluate the suitability of e-learning as a means of delivering training to workplace learners in the South African furniture manufacturing sector. Twenty learners participated in a three-month pilot e-learning course and were monitored throughout. While the study was designed primarily to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Manufacturing, Workplace Learning
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Slay, Hannah; Sieborger, Ingrid; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl – Computers & Education, 2008
There has been extensive investment by governments and individual schools in interactive whiteboard technology in developed countries premised on the assumption that their use in education will impact positively on learners' achievements. Developing countries, such as South Africa, keen to raise attainment among their learners are following suit.…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Internet
Duby, Aliza – 1986
Self-formative evaluation is a unique form of formative evaluation which refers to the involvement of both the producer and the users in the evaluation of newly developed instructional materials; it does not indicate evaluation of themselves. This examination of the feasibility of employing this evaluation technique during the process of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Evaluation Methods, Feasibility Studies, Foreign Countries
French, Edward – 1986
A study examined the feasibility of using television to promote adult literacy and adult basic education (ABE) in South Africa. Following a review of the literature on the experience abroad in using television to promote adult literacy, a preliminary report arguing the case for using television to promote adult literacy and ABE in South Africa was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs, Feasibility Studies