Feeling Pressured to be Productive at the moment? Don’t be…
Hi All So on a day where I should have been much more productive than what has really transpired, I received an email from a friend/ colleague with a link to this article. Wow, did I need it! I’m sharing it here not because it necessarily is related to educational technology but because it relates […]
Tony Bates: Advice on how to teach online amid the corona virus pandemic
I thought I would share this link from Tony Bates (who some of you might know was one of the people that helped establish the MET program) on how to teach online in light of the corona virus. It’s actually fairly “old” in terms of how fast things are currently progressing (original post was 9 […]
Game-based Learning
Game-Based Learning is an umbrella term that encompasses the use of serious games often also called educational games, commercially available games as well as constructionist gaming in education. It seeks to take full advantage of the high levels of engagement offered by digital games to facilitate active learning. Students are able to learn through trial and […]
W07: Game-based Learning
Dear ETEC522’ers Welcome to Week 7 where the topic for the week will be Game-based Learning! We hope that you will enjoy going through our OER this week and that there will be an opportunity for you to learn at least one or two new things regarding the use of games in education. Of course, […]
Virtual Laboratories and Labster Analysis
Even though many students are highly interested in STEM fields, few end up successfully graduating in these disciplines. Due to a growing demand for more STEM graduates, policy makers, educators and entrepreneurs are looking to how this problem can be addressed. Reports indicate that students, although interested in science, want more hands-on experiences. For various […]
Wesley Lynch – Snapplify
Founder and CEO: Wesley Lynch The Venture: Snapplify is a digital learning EdTech company aiming to enable digital learning for individuals as well as institutions by creating a marketplace for digital education content, services and devices. Focused on the African market, Snapplify provides everything that an institution needs in order to create a secure, collaborative […]
Metafact
Metafact realizes that the challenge we face in our modern lives is not the act of finding information (we are bombarded by information) but sifting through numerous sources to find credible facts and answers to our questions. The guys behind this platform aim to bring experts in various fields (sciences to health professionals) together to […]
Hi, I’m Carla and I’m just a hop and a skip away…
Greetings from afar! So I’m a little bit out of sync with most of the class in terms of time zones (making a huge assumption at the moment) as I live around 15 000 km away from Canada. I am a full-time Chemistry lecturer at Stellenbosch University (close to Cape Town for reference) in South Africa […]