E-LEARNING CONFERENCE 2010

Setting the Scene

Mthatha Health Resource Centre

2 November 2010

MANDATE, Centre for Learning and Teaching Development

• Coordination of student access, retention and success b.m.o of WSU Throughput Strategy

• Championing the professionalisation of teaching in higher education, including

• The integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in learning and teaching

SURFACING THE ASSUMPTIONS FOR E-LEARNING COORDINATION

• Structure and agency roles for e-learning implementation (critical realist perspective)

• Given the current structural conditioning, how does WSU steer e-learning practices towards the acceptable levels for structural elaboration?

• How does WSU deal with the legacy issues of a dysfunctional culture (morphostasis), to the requisite state of morphogenesis?

4 STEP DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH

• Initiating a Nuffic-funded project- model of offering responsive and technological programmes, b.m.o. e-learning;

• Developing E-Learning strategy;

• Capacity building of academic staff; and

• Coordination of e-Learning Events as research and knowledge systems to challenge and improve what is being done.

2012 E-LEARNING TARGETS

• Each year there will be 20 lecturers rewarded for their best e-learning practices b.m.o. grass root events.

• By 2012, 25% of the lecturers use Blackboard as a learning management tool (at least: put their PPT’s on Bb).

• By 2012, 100% of the lecturers put their course outlines in Bb.

• By 2012, all first year students are introduced to e-learning techniques.

• By 2012, 25% of classrooms to have data projectors and also smart-boards in all e-learning centres

SUCCESS TO DATE

• 411 PCs in 10 computer labs across WSU campuses• All first semester and year courses, including all

students, loaded on the Bb as DLE• 2378 students trained on Bb (9.1%)• 75 student assistants trained on Bb in all campuses• All students registered for support courses (academic

advising and WRC)• 218 (26%) academic staff trained on the basic e-learning

level and 34 of them trained on Bb intermediate

STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS

• E-Learning champions to facilitate the increase of active learning methodologies in classrooms

• Video conferencing equipment and support at all campuses for a multi campus education system

• Involvement of management in the whole process-exposure to e-learning possibilities

• Senior Research Associate-research about effectiveness of e-learning implementation

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• National E-Skills Summit and National e-

Skills Plan of Action (NeSPA)

• Further Education and Training Colleges

• Provincial Department of Health

• District Departments of Basic Education

E-LEARNING WEEK

• 1 Nov 2010: 3RD E-Learning Event: 17/45 staff demonstrating e-learning practice to date.

• 2-3 Nov: 2nd e-Learning Conference, incl. Student Sessions

• 4-5 Nov: 1st Leadership and Management Development workshop-management of throughputs by means of MIS

RENAMING OF BLACKBOARD

WiSeUp Online

WSU Learning Management System

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