Design boosts e-learning uptake
Researchers at the Informatics Design Labs at the University of Pretoria (UP) are using eye-tracking technology to improve an e-learning platform currently being rolled out in several public and private schools. In some Gauteng schools, textbooks are very much last...
Tertiary institutions mustn’t forget about availability
As tertiary institutions prepare for the commencement of the new academic year, attention shifts to an increasingly digital-savvy student base with changing expectations of how technology is used for learning. This is resulting in the data availability and recovery...
Red Hat deploys software-defined storage at Monash
Monash University, one of Australia's most prestigious research universities, has implemented a massive multi-petabyte deployment on Red Hat Ceph Storage. Founded in 1958, Monash University was established to create a science and technology-focused research...
GirlCode launches workshop series
GirlCode announced that it will introduce The GirlCode Hackathon Workshop Series for 2017. The workshop series is designed to offer participants the opportunity to improve their craft before competing in the Hackathon event later in the year. The GirlCode Hackathon...
Flexible tutoring anywhere anytime
Cognition.Online has launched an app that is now coined the Uber of private tutoring. The app connects students and tutors in a unique way and provides tutors with new job opportunities. This app comes at a perfect time when the country's education system desperately...
RS Components debuts easy-to-solder Raspberry Pi prototyping board
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers, has launched a 40-pin solder-tag board for the highly popular Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer board. Exclusively available from RS, the new RS Pro solder-tag...
Mahindra Comviva partners on m-learning
Mahindra Comviva has made a foray into mobile-based corporate learning and development offering with PalmLeaf, a comprehensive smartphone led learning and engagement solution; with the aim to address all staff learning requirements of modern-day corporations. The...
Laptops and data for top-performing matriculants
Top-performing matriculants from across the country are being sponsored with laptops and data as part of a joint initiative by the MTN SA Foundation and the Department of Education. MTN SA Foundation will give a total of 100 laptops, 10 in each province. Additionally...
Empower students to excel in the gig economy
Factors like increased levels of globalisation have combined with rapid technological development and industry disruption to create an environment whereby individuals with highly sought after skills such as app developers, are able to create their own businesses or...
Africa shows huge appetite for e-learning
Just two months after going live, Africa’s pioneering online education portal and mobile application is boasting over 385 000 visitors, searching for trusted, professional courses, programs and degrees. Across Africa, educational infrastructure cannot meet the current...
New phase for youth development portal
EvenMe!, the online portal that bridges the gap between sustainable employment and school leavers, graduates, unemployed youth and entrepreneurs, has announced the roll out of their second phase of development. For the second phase of development the portal partnered...
Accenture teams with Hour of Code
For the second year, Accenture is collaborating with Code.org to support Hour of Code, a global educational movement that reaches tens of millions of students through a one-hour introduction to computer science and computer programming. As part of Accenture's...