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Browsing Education Innovation by Type "Postprint Article"
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Louw, Ina; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun
(Emerald, 2014)
PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a leadership development program (LDP) for senior academic staff on “qualitative research” after two years to establish the success, limitations and overall impact of the ...
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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. ...
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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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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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Gomes, Monica N.; Fru, Pascaline; Augustine, Tanya N.; Moyo, Davison; Chivandi, Eliton; Daniels, William M.U.
(Routledge, 2022)
Cancer patients, including breast cancer patients, live in a hypercoagulable state. Chemo- and hormone- therapy used in the treatment of breast cancer increases the risk of thrombosis. Due to differences in health care ...
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Louw, Ina; Wood, Lesley; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun
(Routledge, 2017)
Anxiety often prevents postgraduate students from maximising learning opportunities at a
conference when presenting their work publicly, or interacting with experienced
researchers. Since supervision is an opportunity ...
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Tekane, Rethabile; Louw, Ina; Potgieter, Marietjie
(CSSALL Publishers, 2018)
Student protests are a regular feature of the tertiary landscape. However, the disruptions and potential threat to the academic project at traditional universities can be partially mitigated by online teaching and learning. ...
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Machimana, Eugene Gabriel; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng
(Intellect, 2020-10)
The aim of this study is to discuss how South African higher education (HE) is a mechanism to enable global citizenship. This qualitative secondary analysis study draws on retrospective qualitative case study data generated ...
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Machimana, Eugene Gabriel; Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng; Ebersohn, L. (Liesel); Shultz, Lynette
(Springer, 2021-02)
The purpose of the current article was to compare the retrospective experiences of community partners with higher education (HE) qualifications, in community engagement (CE) in order to inform global citizenship as a HE ...
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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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Matthee, Machdel C.; Turpin, Marita; Kriel, Dennis
(Springer, 2017-11)
This research reflects on the outcomes of a design thinking assignment given to first year Information Systems students. The assignment entailed the design and making of a corporate gift (or prototype thereof) by making ...
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Venter, Gerda; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Bosman, Marius C.
(Springer, 2022-11)
Neuroanatomy in the medical curriculum tends to be challenging for both lecturers and students. Students and lecturers perceive the relevance and importance of neuroanatomy differently. If not taught sufficiently, students ...
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Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Mthembu, Thulani; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni
(Wiley, 2021)
This study investigates the factors that predict students' performance after
transitioning from face-to-face to online learning as a result of the Covid-19
pandemic. It uses students' responses from survey questions and ...
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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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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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Louw, Ina
(Routledge, 2018)
Tutorials/discussion classes are seen as an essential part of the teaching mix in the natural sciences, because that is where problems can be solved and course content is applied. Learning support provided by teaching ...
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Buys, Tania Lee; Casteleijn, Daleen; Heyns, Tanya; Untiedt, Hannelie
(Sage, 2022-11)
In qualitative research, researchers often conduct semi-structured interviews with people familiar to them, but there are limited guidelines for researchers who conduct interviews to obtain curriculum-related information ...
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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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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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Fisher, Hendrik Johannes (Hennie); Louw, Ina
(Elsevier, 2020-12)
This study investigates the perceptions of registered consumer science students (n = 58) and graduates (n = 39) from the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) about compulsory forms ...