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Ownership and attitudes towards technology use in physiotherapy students from seven countries
(Elsevier, 2017)
PURPOSE: To assess differences in prerequisites to blended learning such as technology use and Internet access in an international sample of physiotherapy students from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Luxembourg, Sudan, ...
Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(Curationis, 2015-08)
Background: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ...
The potential of authentic learning and emerging technologies for developing graduate attributes
(Unisa Press, 2014)
Graduate attributes, such as critical thinking and problem-solving in real-world
contexts, are increasingly being recognised as crucial for students to develop in higher
education for employability and critical citizenship. ...
Towards a shared understanding of emerging technologies: Experiences in a collaborative research project in South Africa
(The African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), 2013)
While the practice of using educational technologies in Higher Education is increasingly common among educators, there is a paucity of research on innovative uses of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning. ...
The use of emerging technologies for authentic learning: A South African study in higher education
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
It is now widely accepted that the transmission of disciplinary knowledge is insufficient
to prepare students leaving higher education for the workplace. Authentic learning has
been suggested as a way to bring the necessary ...
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 ...
Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas-a case study from rural South Africa
(Elsevier, 2014)
BACKGROUND: With the proliferation of portable digital technology, mobile learning is becoming increasingly popular in nursing education and practice. Most of the research in this field has been concentrated on small-scale ...
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: Implications for higher education institutions
(SUN, 2013)
A gulf is widening between the technologies used by students, those used by educators and those provided by institutions. However, knowledge about the impact of so-called emerging technologies on learning or the readiness ...
Converging institutional expertise to model teaching and learning with emerging technologies
(UNISA Press, 2013)
There is an increasing disjuncture between the use of technologies and the impact that this has on teaching and learning practice. This challenge is compounded by the lack of institutional preparedness to support emerging ...
The use of a wiki to facilitate collaborative learning in a South African physiotherapy department
(South African Society of Physiotherapy, 2012)
The dominant form of teaching in higher education remains the lecture, even though evidence suggests that it alone is inadequate to facilitate the development of the higher order thinking skills required in clinical practice. ...