Author Archives: opendistanceteachingandlearning

Background As African higher education becomes increasingly digitised and datafied, higher education institutions will have access to not only more student data, but also  a greater variety and granularity of data, creating opportunities to utilise the data for a greater … Continue reading →

This blog contains text and some of the images used for the invited seminar, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning, University of South Africa (UNISA), Wednesday 12 August 2020 This reflection flows from an editorial I wrote for a Special … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Teaching in Higher Education:
Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis (co-editors: Kathy Luckett, Aneta Hayes and Sharon Stein) Photo by ICSA on Pexels.com There is wide acknowledgement of the need to ‘decolonise’…

As part of the series, Springer Briefs in Open and Distance Education, we invite expressions of interest for a book that will critically explore and map the potential and challenges of learning analytics in the specific context of open, distance … Continue reading →

Fear is a broken compass. Fear is medication that does not work anymore. Fear is convulsions at night. Fear is not-knowing and to continue walking I used to know the rules, the landscape, and what was expected of me as … Continue reading →

[This is the text of my keynote on 31 May 2018 at the First Annual NWU Teaching and Learning Conference at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.] I would like to take the opportunity to thank the conference organisers for … Continue reading →

Image credit:I’ve used two sources for the above collated image. The image of the head was sourced from https://pixabay.com/en/art-sculpture-scrap-sculpture-human-1699977/ while the image of the network was sourced from https://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egoi_network.png  Call for Proposals We are excited to invite you to submit … Continue reading →