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The UCT MOOCs have done it again, with three courses making it onto Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of all time in 2017. This year the MOOCs, What is a Mind? (on the 2016 list as well), Extinctions: Past & Present and Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics, all made it onto this exclusive list.
“We want our students to go back into the community and make a difference”, words of purpose from Jerome September, Head of Student Affairs at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberly, when asked about the reason for the new SPU partnership with the UCT Global Citizenship Programme (GCP).
With August being Organ Donor Awareness, it seemed like the perfect time to officially launch UCT’s latest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Organ Donation: From Death to Life.
This past month Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz presented the opening keynote, “Unbundling and Rebundling: Contested Terrain in Higher Education”, at The 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) in Philadelphia, USA.