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Abstracts and Biographies

Programme Director

Ms Michelle Frauendorf

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Welcome & Opening

Dr Keith Jacobs

Keynote Speaker

Complex digital connectedness: Building networks & relationships

Dr Juliet Stoltenkamp

Workshops Parallel Sessions

Leaping into an unknown future of course and learning activity design for 21st-century learning

Dr Rita Kizito 

Blended and distance teaching and learning

Centre for Innovative Education & Communication Technologies

Online course design: What’s identity got to do with it?

Dr. Nompilo Tshuma

Leveraging technology to enhance teaching and learning: 

A narrative case for College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) at Unisa

Mr Nicky Tjano 

Community Engagement: eTools Kit for Entrepreneurs, Common Good First (CGF), Digital Inclusion for eCentre Managers

Centre for Innovative Education & Communication Technologies

Blended learning at a University of Technology

Dr Faiq Waghid

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Welcome & Opening

Dr Keith Jacobs

Keynote Speaker

Building student academic resilience in a context of diversity in Higher Education

Prof Alan Cliff 

Parallel Sessions

Research psychologists- Fostering social ecologies of academic resilience: Some practice examples.

Ms Sandra Steyn & Dr Carlien Kahl 

The becoming of the 4th Industrial Revolution in higher education: Is higher education ready for the disruption?

Dr Venicia McGhie

 

A conversation about cognitive, affective and systemic support at an ODeL Writing Centre: A Western Cape case study

Mr Jacques du Toit & Ms Claudine Ferus 

Capabilities-based transformative distance and online learning pedagogy for social Justice

Dr Lydia Mbati 

Reflecting on the development of a student resource centre – support for students, by students

Dr Busayo Ige, Ms Lunelle Pienaar & Mr Gregory Doyle 

Inclusivity practices towards building resilience – The Chrysalis Academy approach

Ms Janine Turner 

The influences of textbook prescription policy on the use of alternative library resources: An ODeL perspective.

Mr. Mduduzi Ncongwane 

A reflection on a workable student support programme 

Dr Mark Herbert 

Recognition of prior learning: RPL process bridging the gap

Dr Marici Snyman 

A blended approach in framing digital literacies: The role of digital learning advising in an ODeL context

Messrs Richard Wright, Sivuyile Deyi and Avron Beaumont

The implementation of enrolment management at the university of South Africa: why the anxiety and panic?

Mr Rakweleta Lephoto 

Contribution of student counselling towards building academic resilience of students in ODeL institution

Mr Kagiso Mekoa 

The transition from rural areas to university life: challenges and how to overcome them

Ms Kelebamang Winnie Mokgupi

Creating an inviting tutorial environment: A tutor's perspective

Ms Elizabeth Booi 

Interventions to help students self-learn to improve their writing to communicate: Technical reports for Professional Communication 113.

Ms Faika Haroun 

Pedagogy and underprepared staff: the challenge of academia

Dr Mark Jacobs

Two stage test: a form of cooperative and reflective learning

Dr Mark Herbert 

Retention of students with disabilities: a holistic student-centered support Practice Framework for academic success.

Ms Michelle Frauendorf 

Friday, 13 September 2019

Welcome

Dr Keith Jacobs

Keynote Speaker

Building resilience in difficult places

Prof Jonathan Jansen

Parallel Sessions

Conversations about a model of personhood and intelligence

Dr Shahieda Jansen, Prof Mokgadi Moletsane & Ms Laetitia Permall

 

Reflections on the use of creative art-making activities and the resulting visual presentations to enrich group work and build resilience

Ms Sonja Barnard & Ms An-Maree Nel

Trauma, educational exclusions, and survival: Examining global student experience and resilience

Prof Chris Knaus and delegation