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Learning styles among nursing students, the implications for higher education institutions: A systematic review
(Unisa Press, 2014)Understanding the learning styles of nursing students has been highlighted as an area in the scholarship of teaching that needs attention. The aim of this review was to determine the common learning styles of nursing ... -
Learning to teach STEM disciplines in higher education: a critical review of the literature
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Enrolments in STEM disciplines at universities are increasing globally, attributed to the greater life opportunities open to students as a result of a STEM education. But while institutional access to STEM programmes is ... -
Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi
(UNISA Press, 2015)The study reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by lecturers in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University (MZUNI), Mzuzu, Malawi. By distributing a ... -
Lecturers’ perceptions: the value of assessment rubrics for informing teaching practice and curriculum review and development
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)The assessment rubric is increasingly gaining recognition as a valuable tool in teaching and learning in higher education. While many studies have examined the value of rubrics for students, research into the lecturers’ ... -
Lessons learnt from teachers’ perspectives on mobile learning in South Africa with cultural and linguistic constraints
(University of Pretoria, 2016)South Africa’s classrooms are characterised by a wide variety of cultural and linguistic differences, providing teachers with educational challenges, particularly in mathematics and science subjects. In response, various ... -
Leveraging informal leadership in higher education institutions: A case of diffusion of emerging technologies in a southern context
(British Educational Research Association, 2013)In the last decade, emerging technologies and transformative practices have diffused into higher education social systems in ways that formal leadership styles are increasingly stretched to both keep abreast of and to ... -
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ... -
Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This paper discusses the role of a writing centre in creating spaces for talk about and change in disciplinary writing pedagogy. It asks how collaborative partnerships between disciplinary academics and Writing Centre ... -
Making sense of the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university: revelations from dialogue journaling on WhatsApp messenger
(Informaing Science Institute, 2017)AIM/PURPOSE The research work investigated the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university in Nigeria, in the course of a group assignment. BACKGROUND Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process ... -
Making the most of teaching at the chairside
(Wiley, 2011)This paper examines the chairside as an opportunity for teaching and learning. It sets out to understand how students learn in the dental clinic so that they can better be supported in their clinical learning. The paper ... -
Maths4Stats: Opleiding vir onderwysers
(AOSIS, 2013)Maths4Stats: Educating teachers. The inadequate nature of the education infrastructure in South Africa has led to poor academic performance at public schools. Problems within schools such as under-qualified teachers and ... -
Mind the gap: Science and engineering education at the secondary–tertiary interface
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2013)In the South African higher education sector, there is increasing concern about the poor retention and throughput rates of undergraduate students. There is also concern that the participation rates in higher education, ... -
(Mis)framing higher education in South Africa
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at ... -
The mismatch between first-year students’ expectations and experience alongside university access and success: A South African university case study
(African Sun Media, 2018)The widening of access into higher education institutions in South Africa has rapidly transformed the student population to become more diverse. Students vary in age, race, culture, backgrounds, educational experiences, ... -
Mobile heterotopia: movement, circulation and the function of the university
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This paper explores the function of the university through the lens of mobility as seen from a South African perspective. Understanding the role of the university as one that requires the movement and circulation of academic ... -
Moving beyond description: research that helps improve teaching and learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)This paper is premised on the assumption that education research, in order to be relevant, needs to generate explanations that have educational significance and applicability. It argues that much of the health sciences ... -
Multilingualism and (bi)literacy development for epistemological access: Exploring students experience in the use of multilingual glossaries at a South African university
(NMMU, 2018)This paper reports on the findings of a research project that investigated first-year students’ experiences in using multilingual glossaries. They were enrolled in an electrical engineering course at a higher education ... -
The need for a new language? How historically disadvantaged institutions grapple with the effects of labelling in Higher Education: the case of the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Tertiary institutions in South Africa have been dichotomised through the colonial structure and apartheid which sought to subjugate some institutions and elevate others. Not only have historically disadvantaged institutions ... -
Nurse educators’ experiences and perspectives of incivility among nursing students in a South African school of nursing
(2014)This study presents a synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of nurse educators regarding uncivil classroom behaviours of nursing students in a school of nursing. Using a descriptive, phenomenological design, 11 ... -
Occupational therapy graduates’ reflections on their ability to cope with primary healthcare and rural practice during community service
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2017)BACKGROUND: Occupational therapy graduates are expected to deliver service in public health facilities using a primary healthcare approach (PHC) during their community service year. There is limited literature available ...