WGI, GE launch new education platform
The WGI Worldwide Company and GE today announced the launch of Lyra, a new app-based education platform that uses advanced speech recognition and touch screen analysis to teach reading and writing. It was co-developed by WGI and GE. The app represents the start of...
The importance of digital skills to the next generation
Big corporates have come together to pool their resources together to provide online education that will benefit both educators and students. As part of their greater corporate initiative, IFS has donated a computer lab to Diepsloot Primary School furnished with...
Covid-19 ramps up cyber risks in education
The societal value of an educational institution is progressively being pitted against the need for it to maintain its operations in an increasingly punitive and litigious environment. Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns have forced educational entities to reshape their...
Huawei adds AI to its free online ICT training
Huawei South Africa has added online training in artificial intelligence (AI) to its portfolio of free training it offers to South African ICT students of higher learning. This was revealed by Huawei CEO Spawn Fan at the online opening ceremony for the 2020 'Seeds for...
How schools can ensure data remains safe in the age of digital learning
Whether you are a teacher, parent, IT professional or student, you have witnessed the extraordinary transition the education sector has recently undergone. By Rick Vanover, senior director of product strategy at Veeam Despite our schools having already facilitated...
Early Childhood Development critical for SA’s future
There are an estimated three to four million children under the age of six who have no access to early learning in South Africa, mainly due to logistics and poverty. This has a significant impact when they enter formal schooling and has a lasting effect throughout...
Covid-19 testing in schools is essential to a safe return
According to the latest figures released by UNESCO, some 1,3-billion learners around the world were not able to attend school or university as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In South Africa, there has been much discussion about the reopening and closing of...
Microlearning is making a big impact on business
Over the past 20 years, the human attention span has rapidly decreased from 12 seconds to eight seconds, according to a Microsoft study. A short attention span has huge implications on how effectively an individual retains information. And it impacts an organisation's...
Live online coaching helps adult learners
The government remains deeply invested in the encouragement of ongoing adult education programmes in the workplace, with the aim of continuing to open doorways for people who were previously disadvantaged during their schooling. And, while education has been hard hit...
Covid-19 accelerates digitised education through social learning
The introduction of the fourth industrial revolution has already been transforming the education sector over the past two decades, with technology allowing students to access education from anywhere at any time. This, however, has been fast tracked due to the impact...
Online high school offers international education
Global EdTech company Crimson Education has launched its private online high school, the Crimson Global Academy (CGA), in South Africa. It provide internationally-recognised, academically rigorous qualifications, including the International IGCSE and A-Levels....
Technology key for post-pandemic education
Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and have mandated that schools and universities introduce distance learning programs. This has been the case in South Africa...