Talking Teaching & Learning

Supporting UCT staff and working in academic staff development. Focused on engagement, possibility, the future in higher ed. More at

[Talking Teaching & Learning @CILT_staffdev]

Watching the University of the Future Project - Future of Teaching and Learning, led by Prof Salome Maswime, along with Dr Caitlin Ferreira, MBA Programme Director; Ms Mihloti Mkhatshwa, Deputy Registrar; Ms Alison Meadows, Senior lecturer #TLC2023

[Andiswa Mfengu (PhD) 🇿🇦 @yolandiswa]

#TLC2023 Keynote by @JanMcArthur on Holistic and authentic assessment - she argues that “Transformative assessment requires dismantling what exists not just building more on top”
@CILT_UCT @ched_uct

[Talking Teaching & Learning @CILT_staffdev]

We're talking about rubrics as a tool for building students' academic literacies and supporting writing. We'll also talk about the potential of rubrics for supporting team marking. Thursday, 13 May, 15:00pm. @CILT_UCT https://t.co/bQjc75xIeq

[Talking Teaching & Learning @CILT_staffdev]

Do you HOST/TEACH/OFFER/CO-CREATE/?? a course? How we frame the work counts - how do you talk about your teaching and learning work with students? (Also "course" but we'll get there.)

[Tim Fawns @timbocop]

Thinking about alternatives to "delivering" or "providing" courses or teaching, that sound less like pre-made products or packages are handed from educators to students, but that will actually work in a conversation.

Hosting?

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

An intro to Padlet: an online tool that encourages creative collaboration through posting texts, images, videos, audio clips, links & uploading files. Join as we explore this interactive tool https://t.co/rYMgyL4qQ0 #EDTech #highered

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

Join our video team as they demonstrate how to make videos with narrated PowerPoints, tips to record on your mobile & upload & embed videos into Vula. Hosted by @StorytellerCT

[Niklas Zimmer @niklas_zimmer]

Dr Sanjin Muftic @sanjinlikeonion from @DigitalUct silent-launching Ibali, UCT Libraries' new showcasing platform for digital collections at @UCT_Research on #OpenDataDay #ODD2021. @omeka semantic web technology for #OpenScholarship #OpenScience #OpenArchives #OpenEducation👩‍🎓

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

What can we do to enable a positive physically distanced learning experience for students? The Vula Lessons tool allows you to organise materials into clearly laid out learning pathways, creating opportunities to support student learning. https://t.co/SxU7qwKun8 #highered

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

Join us as we demonstrate using Wooclap as a tool to facilitate real-time, in-class interaction between instructor and student through mobile devices. https://t.co/6cdFTRck9C
#EdTech #HigherEd

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

WEBINAR: (Re)Designing your assessment for PDL @UCT_news? Join us to design assessments that support student learning and get an orientation to tools in Vula including Assignments, Tests and quizzes, Gradebook & Gradescope. Wed 10 Feb 3pm Sign up https://t.co/b3kRWJjVe5

[CriSTaL Journal @cristaljournal]

Our December issue is out: https://t.co/cKDIgFiyLw, 7 articles and 2 book reviews with a focus on academic literacy, decolonising of the curriculum and social justice concerns @KdWilmot @jacobsc10 @vivboz

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

#Covid19 has prompted us to think about the future of #highered - we made this video to inspire and #unleash a vision of teaching and learning at @uct_news
-https://t.co/y1x0zZvFg5 1/2

[Talking Teaching & Learning @CILT_staffdev]

@tazekins Are those Reese's???!!!

[Talking Teaching & Learning @CILT_staffdev]

@TasneemJaffer assessment conversations

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

Stacey Shield reflects on creating an Engineering Mechatronics Control Systems Course for Emergency Remote Teaching, learning from educational programming like @sesamestreet , political comedy like @iamjohnoliver and @hasanminhaj and Youtube channels like @kurz_gesagt

[Shanali Govender @GovenderShanali]

Jacqueline Yeats presenting on creating classroom environments in #ERT at #TLC2020UCT

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

Shoutout for the @hypothes_is tool embedded in Vula, which tutors used to annotate readings in advance of tutorials.

[CILT at UCT @CILT_UCT]

#TLC2020UCT Humanities Education Development Unit tutors reflect on Emergency Remote Tutoring: the suddenness of the transition needed a lot of remixing to keep tutorials accessible to as many students as possible.

[Catherine Fortune @cathfortune]

Embracing POV and POP as an effective navigation teaching strategy in an Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) mode - Dr Jaisubash Jayakumar - KEY LESSONS LEARNT @CILT_UCT #TLC2020UCT