Centre for Innovative Educational Technology

09/03/2023

Congratulations to our CIET colleagues, both Dr (Ass. Prof) E Ivala and Dr F Waghid on their awards presented at the research festival held on the 28th of February 2023

09/03/2023

Migration to Ultra courses to support learning and teaching excellence and holistic student success at CPUT

It’s here, it’s happening. All 2nd semester courses are to be received in Learn Ultra

27/11/2020

Facilitating with care online Dr Nicola Pallitt [email protected] CHERTL, Rhodes University 26 November 2020 bit.ly/NPkeynote26Nov Greetings everyone:) I’m hoping to do a non-traditional keynote, it’s my first time and I am glad it is for you all. I have visited CPUT a few times,...

20/08/2020

Useful collection of zero-rated websites in South Africa
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/356371-here-is-the-full-list-of-zero-rated-websites-in-south-africa.html

12/06/2020

Great advice by George Veletsianos on online teaching

Research shows few differences in academic outcomes between online and face-to-face university courses. A professor who's been teaching online for years offers advice on good online courses.

09/06/2020

A case for asynchronous teaching:

There is something that bothers us about conversations about replacing face-to-face teaching with online learning: they often fall into a trap of assuming that incorporating synchronous interaction is the optimal way to make learning more personable, that it approximates the face-to-face setting clo...

30/05/2020

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: CPUT COVID-19 Student Contingency Plan, Author: Cape Peninsula Univers...

22/04/2020

Newsflash - CPUT student access survey:

Dear Students

The past few weeks have been a difficult time for staff and students at CPUT due to the current health crisis. We trust that you have kept safe and well.

CIET and Fundani were tasked by the DVC:Teaching and Learning to develop a student access survey to gather information to support executive management in responding to the need for remote teaching and learning during the lockdown. This survey has been developed to learn more about CPUT students’ current conditions and contexts in relation to remote learning. The information collected through this survey is critical for establishing how best to support CPUT students during this period. Please complete the survey, even if you have completed other surveys before.

The link to the survey is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cputaccess.

The survey is for CPUT students only and responses are due by Friday, the 24th of April 2020.

05/04/2020

Great opportunity to learn online facilitation skills!

Facilitating Online Course in 2020 Posted on January 3, 2020 by Jakob Pedersen The course will run three times in 2020: 10 Feb – 10 April (Now closed) 27 April – 26 June 2020 (Apply by 3 April) 7 Sept – 6 Nov 2020 (Apply by 14 August) About the course Facilitating Online provides a solid found...

27/03/2020

Short version: My new book Learning Online: The Student Experience has been published ahead of schedule by Johns Hopkins University Press. The Press has made the book available online for free as part of its efforts to support COVID-19 responses.

26/03/2020

Experts weigh in on how the sudden, forced adoption of technology-delivered instruction will affect the well-being of professors and students alike.

23/03/2020

Teaching online in a socially just way - looks interesting! Self-study course.

In this free course, we will walk you step-by-step through the entire process of launching and facilitating an online course. With straight to the point videos and resources, you'll have your online course up and running in no time so that you can lead an engaging virtual classroom.