Roundtable 2

25 October 2023

The second DSD roundtable event was held on the 25 October 2023 at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference venue in Johannesburg. Approximately 60 participants joined the session.

Roundtable 2 Events

Welcome and Opening

Mrs Linda Khumalo from the British Council South Africa, welcomed everyone to the event and expressed her hope that we would have interesting and deeply meaningful conversations around the digital standards. 

Dr Tarling facilitated the day's events. The group had to work through the drafted digital standards in a systematic way. As part of the adapted Delphi technique, participants had an opportunity to each vote on a set of standards by indicating if the standard should be adopted, adapted or discarded. Only standards flagged for editing or discarding were discussed in this way.  

Voting process on the digital standards

Institutions DSD_Voting Results.pdf
Digital Standards_Voting Results.pdf

Voting on draft digital standards

The digital standards were developed over the previous few months. At Roundtable 1, participants brainstormed their priorities for digital standards. Then, during 23 online collaborative meetings, different groups worked to develop and refine the digital standards for their group. The preliminary drafts of the standards were then prepared for Roundtable 2, where participants had an opportunity to vote on the each standard to either:

Voting with Menti

Menti was used to facilitate the voting process. Since the Institutions section had the most sections and the most digital standards, we started with that group. After voting on each set of digital standards, participants had an opportunity to share their views and suggestions. Sticky notes were on the tables, and the facilitators collected their written feedback to include in the review of the preliminary draft digital standards. As can be seen in the images below, these comments were all collected and placed in the relevant pages of the book. Notes were also recorded from the verbal feedback provided.

Comments and Reflections on the Digital Standards Drafts

Voting-Digital Standards November 2023.docx

Capturing voting and comments

After the Roundtable 2 event, all the notes from the event were captured in digital format as shows on this document. The input from the document was then reviewed, to inform the finalization of the digital standards draft. 

The draft digital standards are being prepared for submission to the Department of Basic Education to review.