scholarly journals Towards an e-learning ecologies approach to pedagogy in a post-COVID world

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Aslam Fataar ◽  
Najwa Norodien-Fataar
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
South African Education ◽  
Future Education ◽  
Learning Ecologies

In this article, part of the special COVID-19 issue of the Journal of Education, we concentrate on digital technology as one of the core dimensions of education's pandemic-related response. As the default teaching mode during the pandemic, Online Emergency Remote Teaching evoked contentious responses about future education directions in a post-COVID world. We shed light on the role of digital technology in South African education, specifically in relation to current debates on higher education. We present an argument that supports an approach based on e-learning ecologies to pedagogy to inform teaching and learning in institutional contexts. We argue that a reflexive pedagogy-led response to digital technology holds promise for creating a systemic educational approach to promoting students' critical epistemic engagement to enable them to secure viable futures.

scholarly journals Student Perceptions Towards Moodle and Kahoot Based e-Learning in Learning Mathematics

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
Ahmad Anis Abdullah ◽  
Tri Rochmadi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Students Attitudes

Today's students are digital natives. They grow with digital technology. Universitas Alma Ata is adapting to learning styles in the digital age by integrating e-learning based learning and classroom learning. The e-learning model that is applied is based on moodle and kahoot. This learning model was introduced to students in September 2017. The meaning of this manuscript is to determine whether the use of moodle and kahoot based e-learning will help students in learning mathematics. It also examines the effect of applying e-learning on student perceptions. Twelve mathematics education students were included in this study. A set of questionnaires was specified to evaluate students' attitudes and perceptions of learning. From the findings, conclusions have been drawn about the role of moodle and kahoot based e-learning to support the teaching and learning process. The results show that students show positive perceptions using moodle and kahoot based e-learning.

scholarly journals Teaching Mathematics during the COVID-19 Lockdown in a Context of Historical Disadvantage

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Brantina Chirinda ◽  
Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu ◽  
Erica Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Education Community ◽  
South African Education

The COVID-19 global pandemic widely affected education across the world and engendered unprecedented scenarios that required expeditious responses. In South Africa, the pandemic came on top of pre-existing inequalities in the education system. Using a qualitative research method of exploratory and descriptive nature, this study engaged a social justice framework to explore the teaching and learning of mathematics during the COVID-19 lockdown in a context of historical disadvantage. A sample of twenty-three Grade 12 mathematics teachers at various public secondary schools in Gauteng, South Africa was used in the study. The teachers were selected through purposive sampling. A Google-generated open-ended questionnaire and follow-up telephonic interviews were used to collect data. Data were analysed thematically in five steps. The findings revealed that the WhatsApp platform is a valuable tool that can support the teaching and learning of mathematics beyond the classroom in the contexts of historical disadvantage. The findings also provided insights into how mathematics teachers became learners themselves during emergency remote teaching (ERT) as they had to adapt to digital teaching, find solutions to unfamiliar problems and acquire knowledge from a larger mathematics education community around the globe. The article discusses these findings and teachers’ challenges of transitioning from traditional face-to-face classrooms to ERT and how they were addressed. At the time of publishing the article, most learners in South Africa had started going to school on a rotational basis. Nonetheless, the study reported in this article is of importance as ERT in the context of historical disadvantage has foregrounded issues of inequality in the South African education system that must be dealt with urgently.

scholarly journals Opetuksen ja oppimisen digiloikka kieltenopiskelijoiden silmin

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Anne Huhtala
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Digital Skills

This article focuses on how university language students reflect on digitalisation and their own digital skills, and what kinds of benefits and risks they see in the increasing use of digital technology in teaching and learning. The data used for this study are of two kinds: 25 students filled in a questionnaire consisting of open questions about digitalisation, and 10 students wrote an essay where they reflected on the role of digital technology in their lives. The data were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. According to the results, university students experience their digital skills as good, and rely on their ability to learn new skills when needed. They describe the role of ICT in their lives as important, but seem to use digital technology with deliberation. They see several benefits in the use of new technologies, e.g., versatility, but also many risks, including problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle.

“A Gay Agenda”: Troubling Compulsory Heterosexuality in a South African University Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2110224
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality ◽  
Teachers And Students

Not only does teaching about gender and sexuality diversity lead to some very interesting and often emotionally evocative, pedagogical exchanges; it can also create challenging issues for teachers and students alike. This article focuses on what happens when a module that addresses compulsory heterosexuality and schooling is broached in an undergraduate sociology class. More importantly, it offers an analysis of the critical incidents and tensions that pay specific attention to how power, knowledge, and emotion feature in teaching and learning. Using antioppressive and affect theories, this article offers an analysis of how we might understand pedagogical practice, especially as it relates to addressing the power of normative heterosexuality in a university classroom. With reflections emerging from the module, I argue for more sociological theorization and analysis of the role of affect in pedagogies that seek to advance liberatory teaching and learning in the area of anti-heterosexism education.

E-learning and information literacy at the University of Jos

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 607-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Lawal ◽  
Stephen Akintunde
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential role of information literacy (IL) within the changing context of the e-learning environment at the University of Jos in recent years. It focuses and emphasises the role of the University library in facilitating teaching and learning through the use of e-learning platforms in teaching information retrieval skills. The paper aims to identify gaps in students’ information skills that could be addressed through IL instruction. Design/methodology/approach – The study employed a case study research design while the methodology involved the administration of structured questionnaires to the two groups of respondents. Findings – Findings from the study provide useful insights to the skills challenges experienced by students and point to a need for effective collaboration between the library, faculty and management in order to promote a better approach to learning at the institution. Originality/value – By emphasising the role of the library, the paper contributes to previous studies on e-learning at the University and provides a basis for further research in this regard.

scholarly journals DigiTech use in enhancing effective teaching of Health and Physical Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Adiele Dube ◽  
◽  
Ishmael Dhemba ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Deficit Model ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
E Learning

The 21st Century’s new dimension of digital technology usage in education has been unanimously welcomed worldwide. Higher education and tertiary institutions were awakened by the outbreak of the never experienced coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to embrace e-learning. Southern Africa institutions were not spared from this pandemic which had escalating deaths on daily basis causing Heads of States to announce immediate closure of learning institutions among others to curb the spread of COVID-19. Tertiary institutions implemented teaching and learning as a deficit model. Educators and learners had to go digital learning by embracing, ICT, E-learning, M-learning through the use of Learning Management Systems which include Moodle, Sakai, Google classroom, and such related platforms. In response, Health, Physical Education and Sport educators were not spared to embrace the necessity of Digital Technology usage in online teaching and learning. This paper aims at discussing DigiTech in HPE, it’s benefits, types of DigiTech, E-learning and blended e-learning, M-learning. For the upcoming digital generation, some useful DigiTech platforms in HPE have been generated to enormously improve the conducive digital teaching and learning environment.

scholarly journals The role of the ICT teacher in e-learning-based teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Fetri Sukisworo ◽  
Marsono Marsono ◽  
Widiyanti Widiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
E Learning

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a fundamental impact on various aspects of humanity. Starting from attacking health, this pandemic has hit the education sector which is quite influential on human life. Enforcement of regulations while maintaining a distance of about one meter has implications for the education process in Indonesia. Therefore, the educational element must encourage the distance learning process. The term arises because it sees distance learning as an alternative to face-to-face methods so that education can always be held without controversy under any circumstances. This activity raises the use of technology that is used as teaching material for distance education. Distance learning techniques allow users to take advantage of technologies such as online learning. Teachers will be required to abandon using traditional techniques whose methods are somewhat indifferent. Online learning creates internet connectivity and the use of information technology in helping the teaching and learning process that can be applied in Google Classroom. In this article, researchers focus on using Google Classroom in the context of implementing distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals The Role of Cloud Computing for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Saudi Arabian Universities in Accordance with the Social Constructivism Theory: A Specialist’s Point of View

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Farhan Yetaim Alenezi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Enhancement ◽  
The Social ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Academic Year

This study aims to evaluate the role of Cloud Computing in enhancing teaching and learning in Saudi Arabian government universities in the backdrop of the four principles of Social Constructivism Theory - social interaction, previous experience, activity of a learner, and the development of mental skills; all these have to be examined form the specialist’s point of view as he will be responsible for integrating technology into the processes for supporting the whole ecosystem. The study was conducted at 29 Saudi Arabian government universities, using a quantitative approach based on a Questionnaire. The study sample consisted of 84 Deans and Vice Deans of E-learning across all Saudi government universities, in the Academic Year 2016/2017. The results revealed a significant role for Cloud Computing for teaching and learning enhancement in the Saudi Arabian universities in accordance with the construct outlined above.

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