Vodacom partners with Wits for online learning
To help students stay on track to successfully complete the 2020 academic year despite not being on campus, Vodacom has partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg to keep students connected to higher learning activities. To ensure that...
AWS develops cloud computing skills in SA
As cloud technologies continue to help organisations transform at a rapid pace, employees with the necessary cloud skills are in high demand. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working with South African education institutions to produce the next generation of cloud...
Blended learning: the norm in the future of school education?
With a global health crisis going on, it is only natural to be focused on the present, but as the world begins to feel the beneficial results of the emergency measures against COVID-19, it is time to look to the future. By Susanna Ackermann, head of education at Acer...
How to make remote learning less stressful
When President Cyril Ramaphosa placed South Africa under a hard lockdown on 23 March, the face-to-face education sector was amongst the hardest hit. Schools, parents, educators, and pupils suddenly found themselves having to adapt to new ways of doing things on the...
UP uses Blackboard to support staff and students during closure
The shutdown of South Africa's institutions of higher learning is not a new phenomenon, with the country having experienced several severe interruptions to its university academic programmes in recent memory. During these periods of disruption, primarily driven by...
Educo Solutions provides free online accredited SETA courses
Educo Solutions, the organisation that supplies free, accredited education to our country's youth, has fast-tracked its digital services, launching Educo Academy in an attempt to counter the negative impact Covid-19 is having on the educational environment. The online...
Will blended learning be the future norm?
With a global health crisis going on, it is only natural to be focused on the present, but as the world begins to feel the beneficial results of the emergency measures against Covid-19, it is time to look to the future. By Susanna Ackermann, head of education at Acer...
Beware of cybercriminals while e-learning
With schools and universities still closed and the academic year heading into its second term, South Africa’s estimated 14-million school children and students are having to rely on digital tools and online classrooms to keep on top of school work. However, says Mikey...
HPE opens up digital learning platfor
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is opening its learning-as-a-service platform to all, providing 30 days free access to anyone that registers before the end of May 2020. Offering about 5 000 hours of training across numerous modules, the HPE Digital Learner Platform...
Cisco offers free Cisco-certified instructor training
Cisco Networking Academy will provide free remote instructor training for education personnel until 15th June 2020. A record of more than 1 300 registrations have been made for the remote instructor training which will enable instructors to expand their reach as...
How Covid-19 crisis is demystifying online learning
For the past few decades, it has been noted that one of the biggest problems of education in the age of disruption is that, as a global sector, it has mostly, stubbornly resisted being disrupted. The danger of clinging to traditional paradigms is the continuous...
The cyber risks of online schooling
Distance learning may become the new normal - but there are new risks in this virtual environment, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director at Fortinet. With lockdown forcing schools and tertiary institutions to take learning online, a plethora of new risks...