The University of Johannesburg’s new UJ Digital project offers students higher education programmes via an online platform.
The Telkom Foundation brings Lightbulb Edtech to learners, to help empower Ga-Maake Village pupils with mathematics lessons.
The Lightbulb online learning system will provide the schools with the ability to offer their students customised extra lessons.
From February 2025, the university will offer diplomas in marketing, public sector accounting and sports management.
The telecoms operator democratises access to e-learning in SA, as its online learning portal hits 1.4 million users.
Students experienced “technical challenges”, leading to a barrage of negative comments on social media.
Innovation for technology-enabled education
AWS continued its cloud series of events with an education-focused session on 13 September at Hotel Sky in Sandton. Key stakeholders, provincial and local governments as well as other organisations shared their strategies and initiatives to foster private and public sector collaboration in achieving their outcomes and spring-board growth in the country. #ITWebCloudSeries2022 #AWS #OnlineLearning
Cloud-enabled education
An ITWeb webinar took place on 23 February in partnership with First Distribution, AWS and MFT. The session provided some insights on AWS migration and funding for EdTech businesses. #AWSforEdtech #FirstDistribution #MFT
HP learning companion notebooks empower youth for tomorrow’s success
Newly-appointed VP & Managing Director of HP Africa, Bradley Pulford, spoke about how technology can empower Africa's youth, which specs to look out for when buying a laptop and the reasoning behind the Africa First Time Buyer campaign. #HP #OnlineLearning #BradleyPulford
Education minister Angie Motshekga wants to put a laptop in every teacher’s hands in the next five years.
The institutions receive high praise from students for their efforts to enable remote learning, based on StuDocu’s university ranking for 2021.
The University of Pretoria opts to use global edtech firm Blackboard’s Ally software to resolve digital course accessibility issues.
As the education sector counts the cost of disrupted learning, South African universities are forced to reprioritise their IT spending to accommodate hybrid learning models.
Logitech has been collaborating with educators around the world to support online learning and make teachers’ work easier.
Industry experts weigh in on SA’s education system, advising stakeholders to consider blended models of teaching and learning as the pandemic continues.