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Browsing Research Articles (Education Innovation) by Issue Date
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Fresen, Jill Winifred
(Educational Technology Publications, 2002-01)
Are we meeting the needs of our learners? Are we fulfilling our vision of excellence in learning? How do we marry the theory of Quality Assurance with the services we offer, with particular reference to the web-supported ...
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Pretorius, Gaby J.; Fresen, Jill Winifred; Marx, Alta S.
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-09)
The Department of Telematic Learning and Education Innovation (TLEI) is a service department at the University of Pretoria, which assists and supports academic staff in education innovation projects. One of the many ...
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Boyd, Lesley G.; Fresen, Jill Winifred
(Unisa Press, 2004)
Whilst research on policy implementation concludes that ‘the principles of equity and quality have been steadily internalised by institutions’ (CHE 2003a), there has been a great deal of sometimes passionate dissent about ...
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Fresen, Jill Winifred; Boyd, Lesley G.
(Elsevier, 2005)
This study investigates the quality assurance of web-supported learning and may be considered a self-evaluation exercise of the e-learning design and production unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. While the ...
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Fresen, Jill Winifred
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2007)
This paper reports on a case study of the e-learning production unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Phase 1 of the study, completed in 2003, was the design and development of a process-based quality management ...
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Maree, David J.F.; Maree, Marinda; Collins, Charmaine
(Elliot & Fitzpatrick, 2008)
Please read abstract in article.
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Kilfoil, W.R. (Wendy Ruth), 1952-
(Unisa Press, 2008)
This article looks at the way in which people perceive learning and the impact of these perceptions on teaching methods within the context of learning development in distance education. The context could, in fact, be any ...
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Nagel, Lynette; Blignaut, Anita Seugnet
(Elsevier, 2009)
Higher education institutions deliver web-based learning with varied success. The success rate of distributed online courses remains low. Factors such as ineffective course facilitation and insufficient communication ...
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Nagel, Lynette; Blignaut, Anita Seugnet; Cronje, Johannes Christoffel
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-03)
The establishment of an online community is widely held as the most important prerequisite for successful course completion and depends on an interaction between a peer group and a facilitator. Beaudoin reasoned that online ...
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Nagel, Lynette; Kotze, Theuns G.
(Elsevier, 2010)
The answer to massification in higher education lies not in paper-behind-glass style e-learning. Such courses lack the necessary interaction to ensure success. There are perceived upper limits to where e-learning can be ...
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Blitz, J.J.; Van Rooyen, M.R.; Cameron, David A.; Pickworth, G.P.; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Open Journals Systems, 2010-08)
INTRODUCTION: A section of the undergraduate curriculum was revised due to consistently poor student evaluation. The chosen didactic method for achieving this change was reciprocal peer teaching. This innovation may have ...
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Nsibande, Rejoice N.; Modiba, Maropeng M.
(Routledge, 2011)
The paper reports on a study that clarifies the nature and scope of the challenges
experienced by primary school teachers in Swaziland when using Continuous
Assessment (CA) as a tool to improve teaching and learning. ...
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Nagel, Lynette; Kotze, Theuns G.
(Unisa Press, 2011)
Blended learning should incorporate the best of contact and online learning, allowing
flexibility while retaining connectedness. Therefore, designing effective instruction
requires research-informed choices. The Community ...
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Naidoo, Ana; Naidoo, Ari
(School of Education and Development (SETD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)
This article aims to provide an understanding of challenges faced within higher education
when responding to a national call to produce more students with master’s and doctor’s
degrees. We focus on transformation within ...
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Lemmens, Juan-Claude
(Unisa Press, 2011-06)
No abstract available.
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Nsibande, Rejoice N.; Garraway, James
(Routledge, 2011-06)
Formative evaluation and its associated methodology of reflection on practice are
used extensively in academic staff development. In reflecting on formative evaluation
processes in both more traditional and newer programmes ...
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Ogude, Nthabiseng Audrey; Kilfoil, W.R. (Wendy Ruth), 1952-; Du Plessis, Gerhard
(Queensland University of Technology, 2012-03)
A concerted institutional approach to improving student outcomes resulted in a facultybased,
student-focussed model for student success at the University of Pretoria (UP). The
student academic development and excellence ...
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Naidoo, Ana
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-06)
This article investigates the process of curriculum renewal in a faculty of education. I report on my
own experiences as the initiator of the change to the Bachelor of Education curriculum. When colleges
of education ...
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Mans, Hettie; Lauwrens, Jennifer
(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2013)
In this article we explore the nature of a particular kind of femininity, which we term 'Christian-Afrikaans femininity'. It is our contention that the rise of glossy magazines over the last two decades, and specifically ...
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Zeeman, Estelle; Lotriet, Marena
(Routledge, 2013-02)
The teaching of classical Greek dramas is integral to drama education at the
University of Pretoria. In the past few years these dramas increasingly faced the
danger of becoming ‘foreign’/irrelevant to modern day students. ...