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Alta van der Merwe

Deputy dean, teaching and learning within the EBIT Faculty at the University of Pretoria.

Professor Alta van der Merwe is deputy dean, teaching and learning within the EBIT Faculty at the University of Pretoria.

Van der Merwe focuses on the design of socio-technical solutions with research activities in enterprise architecture, data science and different theories supporting the successful use of technology in the organisation.

Her research related to her position focuses on student success and especially using technology to enhance throughput.

She is the past president of SAICSIT and on an international level, was involved in the proposal and acceptance of the IEEE SMC Enterprise Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Technical Committee. In 2018, she was appointed as the IFIP 8 vice-chair.

Articles

3:30
Software
18 Nov

Experience a world of topic modelling tools

An exploration of several popular tools provides a deeper appreciation of the complexity and power of topic modelling.

8:10
Software
Feb 3, 2023

South African academic weighs in on OpenAI’s ChatGPT

It is an exciting new era in education, with ChatGPT’s report writing likely to cause a rethink of traditional teaching and learning.

5:20
Innovations
Mar 7, 2022

The world of work in Society 5.0

In Society 5.0, the focus is on the integration of the human into the workplace, using tech as a tool to support work activities.

4:30
Innovations
Mar 5, 2020

Society 5.0: Humans in the digital world

Welcome to Society 5.0, where cyberspace and physical space collide, and information overload, fake news and social media addiction are commonplace digital problems.