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Watching the University of the Future Project - Future of Teaching and Learning, led by Prof Salome Maswime, along with Dr Caitlin Ferreira, MBA Programme Director; Ms Mihloti Mkhatshwa, Deputy Registrar; Ms Alison Meadows, Senior lecturer #TLC2023
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#TLC2023 Keynote by @JanMcArthur on Holistic and authentic assessment - she argues that “Transformative assessment requires dismantling what exists not just building more on top”
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We're talking about rubrics as a tool for building students' academic literacies and supporting writing. We'll also talk about the potential of rubrics for supporting team marking. Thursday, 13 May, 15:00pm. @CILT_UCT uct-za.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
Do you HOST/TEACH/OFFER/CO-CREATE/?? a course? How we frame the work counts - how do you talk about your teaching and learning work with students? (Also "course" but we'll get there.)
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An intro to Padlet: an online tool that encourages creative collaboration through posting texts, images, videos, audio clips, links & uploading files. Join as we explore this interactive tool bit.ly/Padletuct #EDTech #highered
ALT CILT Webinar Series: Padlet
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Join our video team as they demonstrate how to make videos with narrated PowerPoints, tips to record on your mobile & upload & embed videos into Vula. Hosted by @StorytellerCT
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Dr Sanjin Muftic @sanjinlikeonion from @DigitalUct silent-launching Ibali, UCT Libraries' new showcasing platform for digital collections at @UCT_Research on #OpenDataDay #ODD2021. @omeka semantic web technology for #OpenScholarship #OpenScience #OpenArchives #OpenEducation👩🎓
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What can we do to enable a positive physically distanced learning experience for students? The Vula Lessons tool allows you to organise materials into clearly laid out learning pathways, creating opportunities to support student learning. bit.ly/VulaLessons2 #highered
ALT CILT Webinar Series
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Join us as we demonstrate using Wooclap as a tool to facilitate real-time, in-class interaction between instructor and student through mobile devices. bit.ly/Wooclap2
#EdTech #HigherEd
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WEBINAR: (Re)Designing your assessment for PDL @UCT_news? Join us to design assessments that support student learning and get an orientation to tools in Vula including Assignments, Tests and quizzes, Gradebook & Gradescope. Wed 10 Feb 3pm Sign up bit.ly/PDLTools
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Our December issue is out: cristal.ac.za/index.php/cris…, 7 articles and 2 book reviews with a focus on academic literacy, decolonising of the curriculum and social justice concerns @KdWilmot @jacobsc10 @vivboz
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#Covid19 has prompted us to think about the future of #highered - we made this video to inspire and #unleash a vision of teaching and learning at @uct_news
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Stacey Shield reflects on creating an Engineering Mechatronics Control Systems Course for Emergency Remote Teaching, learning from educational programming like @sesamestreet , political comedy like @iamjohnoliver and @hasanminhaj and Youtube channels like @kurz_gesagt
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Jacqueline Yeats presenting on creating classroom environments in #ERT at #TLC2020UCT
Distinguished Teacher awardee Associate Professor Jacqueline Yeats didn’t plan to become a teacher, but almost 13 years later she wouldn’t have it any other way. Read more: bit.ly/2JrRRmQ
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Shoutout for the @hypothes_is tool embedded in Vula, which tutors used to annotate readings in advance of tutorials.
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#TLC2020UCT Humanities Education Development Unit tutors reflect on Emergency Remote Tutoring: the suddenness of the transition needed a lot of remixing to keep tutorials accessible to as many students as possible.
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Embracing POV and POP as an effective navigation teaching strategy in an Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) mode - Dr Jaisubash Jayakumar - KEY LESSONS LEARNT @CILT_UCT #TLC2020UCT
Day 1 of #TLC2020UCT is a wrap but we'll see you next week and online! For anyone with FOMO - it's not too late to register. We kick off Monday with a JazzArt chair class and a workshop on academic wellness during COVID. @CILT_UCT @UCT_news @GovenderShanali @sukainaw @Czernie
Registration now open for the 2020 UCT Teaching and Learning Conference which will run online from 17-23 September 2020 with the theme of "Shifting Academic Identities" as a response to emergency remote teaching. Register here: bit.ly/UCTTLC2020 @UCT_news @ched_uct
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"Analysing lecturers’ use of WhatsApp for student communication during ERT" - Dr Cesarina Edmonds-Smith, Dr Dale Taylor, Dr Emma Lockerbie #TLC2020UCT @CILT_UCT
