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Tunjera Nyarai; Moyo Moses; Sadeck Osman; Chigona Agnes – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Mobile technology is a promising area of research post COVID-19 and helps the realisation of education 4.0 The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise mobile learning in Education 4.0 paradigm in the South African context. This descriptive study used a questionnaire made in a google form and distributed amongst pre-service teachers at a faculty…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Kgabo, Mapitso Veronica – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Institutions of higher education in South Africa have seen a shift in the student demographic of student population, and from contact teaching approaches to distance and online approaches to instruction. This has posed challenges as students find themselves without adequate support in online environments to successfully fulfil their studies. There…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Distance Education
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Cox, Glenda; Trotter, Henry – Open Praxis, 2017
This paper examines three new tools--a framework, an heuristic and a lens--for analysing lecturers' adoption of OER in higher educational settings. Emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and South Africa (UNISA) on why lecturers adopt--or do not adopt--OER, these tools enable greater analytical…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Setlhako, Motladi Angeline – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
Meeting the needs of students in a continually evolving education environment has created new challenges and opportunities for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Institutions. Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) across the nation are designing new programs to promote students' achievements and graduation. The technological developments provide new…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Open Universities, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Taylor, Estelle; Breed, Marnus; Hauman, Ilette; Homann, Armando – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Our aim is to determine which teaching methods students in Computer Science and Information Systems prefer. There are in total 5 different paradigms (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, design-based and humanism) with 32 models between them. Each model is unique and states different learning methods. Recommendations are made on methods that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Computer Science Education, Information Systems
Setati, Mamokgethi – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In South Africa where poverty defines the lives of the majority, technological resources are not just limited and unequally distributed in schools, but also their availability does not necessarily translate into use. The paper explores issues related to accessibility and (non-) use of technology for mathematics learning and teaching in poor…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Computer Uses in Education
Marsh, Cecille – 2000
A two-phase study examined the skills required of competent end-users of computers in the workplace and assessed the computing awareness and technological environment of first-year students entering historically disadvantaged technikons in South Africa. First, a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) panel of nine representatives of local business and…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Competence, Computer Literacy