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This paper reports on a study conducted at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa. The study aims to determine to what extent novice online instructors can advance contemporary knowledge of instructional design in an online...

This paper reports on a study in progress presently being conducted at the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants in the study are online lecturers at RAU who consider themselves to be experienced face-to-face...

This paper explores transfer of learning between classroom context and a mini-internship in a Masters course in Instructional Technology at a university in Johannesburg, South Africa. Students learn about the field through a curriculum with content...

This paper reflects the findings of a study conducted to assess educators' competence in integrating computers for teaching and learning purposes at selected primary school. This School, situated in Soweto, Gauteng - South Africa, was the first...

The ubiquity of the use of ICT in education in developed countries does not extent to developing countries like South Africa. However, several initiatives exist that are changing this, and currently South Africa is the most wired country on the...

Abstract: This paper reports on methodologies implemented in a study to investigate how engagement with e-learning reflects possible change in epistemology and pedagogy of lecturers in an education faculty. Lecturers have begun to question their ...

We have argued before that personal learning experiences and, to a degree, the teaching experiences of lecturers could be seen as directive indicators of their e-learning uptake. We have also proposed that their 'narrative situatedness' is where we...

Emerging technologies are changing human beings and the social matrix in which they interact. The emergence of educational technologies in an urban South African School is drives the activities of teachers engaging with these technologies and as...

Getting postgraduate students to engage in fieldwork and to write up research in the form of a research essay has been problematic in the past. Students at this level have been exposed to aspects of research methodology, data collection and...

This paper reports on research where student reflections were used to derive design principles for the transformation of an undergraduate module to better address issues around the use of educational technologies in teaching and learning. The...