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The everyday life information behaviour of visually impaired students at Stellenbosch University
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018)
This article investigated the everyday life information behaviour of students with visual impairment at Stellenbosch University (SU). Ten students with sight disabilities from various faculties completed a questionnaire ...
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, ...
A survey of university students' perceptions of learning management systems in a low-resource setting using a technology acceptance model
(Wolters Kluwer Health Inc, 2015)
Learning management systems have been widely advocated for the support of distance learning. In low-resource settings, the uptake of these systems by students has been mixed. This study aimed to identify, through the use ...
Reflecting on some of the challenges facing postgraduate nursing education in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2010)
Considering the dearth of professional nurses in South Africa today, and the fact that postgraduate nursing education can contribute towards enhancing the competences of those in the profession, I shall examine some of the ...
Debriefing interviews and coaching conversations: strategies to promote student reflexivity and action
(UNISA Press, 2011)
Without conscious will and engagement in critical reflexivity as a process of growth and
learning in research, students remain unaware of their subjective biases and the effect
of bias on the inquiry. A qualitative, ...
Developing scholarship of teaching and learning through a community of enquiry
(UWC, 2017)
A growing interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education
requires the seeking of opportunities for its development within and across disciplines and
institutions. However, rewards for ...
Dissent, disruption, decolonization: South African student protests 1968 to 2016
(Center for Economic Research and Social Change, 2018)
Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the “West” and in the “East,” “Global 1968” has become the catchword to describe these profound generational revolts. We hear a lot about West Berlin, ...
Using a disciplinary discourse lens to explore how representations afford meaning making in a typical wave physics course
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
We carried out a case study in a wave physics course at a Swedish
university in order to investigate the relations between the representations used in the
lessons and the experience of meaning making in interview–discussions. ...
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 ...
Physiotherapy Students’ Use of Online Technology as part of their Learning Practices: A Case Study
(Aosis, 2012)
The relevance of non-technical skills have long been acknowledged as
important components of clinical learning, and there is evidence that integrating technology
can facilitate their development by encouraging reflection, ...