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Friday, 23 August 2019
‘Social Infrastructures: engaging with community for change’ (SI) - has been developed via a partnership between EBE and CHED and has its roots in UCT’s Global Citizenship programme (GC) (see www.globalcitizen.uct.ac.za). The course counts as an 18-credit Humanities Complementary Studies Elective for EBE degrees.
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Mon, 19 Aug 2019 - 09:45
Delivering the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) 20th Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is certainly cause for celebration. In just four years, the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teachingʼs (CILT) previous 19 free online courses, covering topics ranging from social innovation to fintech, climate change and clinical research, have reached over 250 000 self-motivated students.
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Wed, 07 Aug 2019 - 17:15
"CHED’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching has been doing innovative work on open education resources, open scholarship and open-access alternatives.
The impact of this will extend beyond scholarship: The cost of knowledge for students will be reduced and by decommodifying knowledge, Haupt argued, knowledge is decolonised."
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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 - 09:15
While there are challenges to community-engaged teaching and learning (CETL), the motivation for and benefits of undertaking it are encouraging, according to research conducted by Rutendo Furusa and Associate Professor Janice McMillanfrom the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT).
Furusa and McMillan presented their findings at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) 2019 Teaching and Learning Conference, on Thursday, 11 July. Their presentation was titled “Engaging the wider context: community-engaged teaching and learning as emergent practice”.
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Tue, 30 Jul 2019 - 09:45