Browsing Research Articles (Education Innovation) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Education Innovation) by Title

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  • ‘I just do as expected’. Teachers’ implementation of continuous assessment and challenges to curriculum literacy 
    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. ...
  • The impact of institutional differentiation on master’s programmes in South Africa 
    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 ...
  • Incorporating the mature students voice and lived experiences into continuous quality improvement 
    Lubbe, J.C. (Irene); Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Turner, A.C. (Astrid) (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-11)
    Improving academic quality requires feedback from students since they have specific insight in their lived educational experience. Most institutions assess educational experience by evaluating individual modules. Few ...
  • An institutional model for improving student retention and success at the University of Pretoria 
    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 ...
  • Introducing the maker movement to information systems students 
    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 ...
  • Is temperament a key to the success of teaching innovation? 
    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 ...
  • Konteks van die ontstaan en opvoedkundige rol van Caravaggio se die onthoofding van Sint Johannes die Doper in die 17de eeu 
    Pretorius, Jannie (LitNet, 2020-12)
    In hierdie essay ondersoek die skrywer die konteks waarbinne Caravaggio se skildery Die onthoofding van Sint Johannes die Doper ontstaan het en die opvoedkundige rol daarvan in die 17de eeu op die eiland Malta. Caravaggio ...
  • Leading curriculum renewal in a faculty of education : a story from within 
    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 ...
  • Learning strategies for first-year biology : toward moving the “murky middle” 
    Kritzinger, Angelique; Lemmens, Juan-Claude; Potgieter, Marietjie (American Society for Cell Biology, 2018-09-01)
    Higher education faces the challenge of high student attrition, which is especially disconcerting if associated with low participation rates, as is the case in South Africa. Recently, the use of learning analytics has ...
  • Migration and the geopolitics of Boko terrorism in Nigeria 
    Isike, Christopher; Isike, Efe (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2018)
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  • A model for learning development 
    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 ...
  • Neurophobia : a side effect of neuroanatomy education? 
    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 ...
  • Neurophobia : the inconvenient truth 
    Venter, Gerda; Bosman, Marius C.; Lubbe, Johanna (Spanish Association of Anatomy, 2023-09)
    Medical schools have implemented strategies in response to neurophobia to counteract the negative perception and improve neuroscience experiences for undergraduate medical students. In this study, we explored the attitudes, ...
  • Online and face-to-face learning : evidence from students’ performance during the Covid-19 pandemic 
    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 ...
  • Pedagogy to probity 
    Roos, Heleen; Lubbe, J.C. (Irene) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-09)
    At midnight, Thursday 26 March 2020, South Africa (SA) was declared a state of disaster and entered a nationwide lockdown to curb the rapid spread of COVID‑19. South Africans were instructed to stay home and all but ...
  • Professional development through formative evaluation 
    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 ...
  • Public administration – getting hooked on e-learning 
    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 ...
  • Quality in web-supported learning 
    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 ...
  • Quality promotion and capacity development : could they come to the aid of weary South African academics? 
    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 ...
  • Read-only participants : a case for student communication in online classes 
    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 ...