E-LEARNING CONFERENCE 2010 Setting the Scene Mthatha Health Resource Centre 2 November 2010

MANDATE, Centre for Learning and Teaching Development Coordination of student access, retention and success b.m.o of WSU Throughput Strategy Championing the professionalisation of teaching in higher education, including The integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in learning and teaching

SURFACING THE ASSUMPTIONS FOR E-LEARNING COORDINATION Structure and agency roles for e-learning implementation (critical realist perspective) Given the current structural conditioning, how does WSU steer e-learning practices towards the acceptable levels for structural elaboration? How does WSU deal with the legacy issues of a dysfunctional culture (morphostasis), to the requisite state of morphogenesis?

4 STEP DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH Initiating a Nuffic-funded project- model of offering responsive and technological programmes, b.m.o. e-learning; Developing E-Learning strategy; Capacity building of academic staff; and Coordination of e-Learning Events as research and knowledge systems to challenge and improve what is being done.

2012 E-LEARNING TARGETS Each year there will be 20 lecturers rewarded for their best e-learning practices b.m.o. grass root events. By 2012, 25% of the lecturers use Blackboard as a learning management tool (at least: put their PPT’s on Bb). By 2012, 100% of the lecturers put their course outlines in Bb. By 2012, all first year students are introduced to e- learning techniques. By 2012, 25% of classrooms to have data projectors and also smart-boards in all e-learning centres

SUCCESS TO DATE 411 PCs in 10 computer labs across WSU campuses All first semester and year courses, including all students, loaded on the Bb as DLE 2378 students trained on Bb (9.1%) 75 student assistants trained on Bb in all campuses All students registered for support courses (academic advising and WRC) 218 (26%) academic staff trained on the basic e-learning level and 34 of them trained on Bb intermediate

STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS E-Learning champions to facilitate the increase of active learning methodologies in classrooms Video conferencing equipment and support at all campuses for a multi campus education system Involvement of management in the whole process-exposure to e-learning possibilities Senior Research Associate-research about effectiveness of e-learning implementation

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES National E-Skills Summit and National e- Skills Plan of Action (NeSPA) Further Education and Training Colleges Provincial Department of Health District Departments of Basic Education

E-LEARNING WEEK 1 Nov 2010: 3 RD E-Learning Event: 17/45 staff demonstrating e-learning practice to date. 2-3 Nov: 2 nd e-Learning Conference, incl. Student Sessions 4-5 Nov: 1 st Leadership and Management Development workshop-management of throughputs by means of MIS

RENAMING OF BLACKBOARD WiSeUp Online WSU Learning Management System

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