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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 ...
Designing a course model for distance-based online bioinformatics training in Africa: the H3ABioNet experience
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Africa is not unique in its need for basic bioinformatics training for individuals from a diverse
range of academic backgrounds. However, particular logistical challenges in Africa, most
notably access to bioinformatics ...
A critical review of practices of inclusion and exclusion in the psychology curriculum in higher education
(Psychology in Society, 2015)
Much of South African psychology has pursued the national
imperative of critical engagement and reconstruction
since 1994, in spite of collusion with Apartheid ideologies
before 1994. Critical ...
Factors influencing student usage of an online learning community: the case of a rural South African university
(Inderscience, 2017)
Technology adoption within higher education is becoming popular. This has often resulted in hubs of learning referred to as an online learning community. The success of such platforms is dependent on full system utilisation. ...
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 ...
Examining the performance of the South African economics departments, 2005-2014
(Wiley, 2017)
This study examines the teaching and research activities of 17 Economics Departments in 2005-2014 by consulting the information from each university’s faculty prospectus, publication in accredited local and international ...
Exploring participatory parity in higher education: Experiences of social work students
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
This study uses the principle of participatory parity (PP) espoused by Fraser (2008, 2009) for exploring social work students’ experiences of enabling and constraining factors in advancing their engagement with and involvement ...
Technology enhanced teaching and learning in South African higher education – A rearview of a 20 year journey
(Wiley, 2016)
In the last 20 years, the South African higher education has changed significantly, influenced by global trends national development goals and pressure from local educational imperatives, in the context of a digitally ...
The scholarship of teaching and learning from a social justice perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
We argue that there is a reciprocal relationship between all scholarly activities, most importantly between teaching, learning, research and professional learning. The article builds on the work of others who call for a ...
What lies beneath: exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Feedback plays an integral role in students’ learning and development, as it is often the only personal communication that students have with tutors or lecturers about their own work. Yet, in spite of its integral role in ...