Nadeosa Conference 2006

NADEOSA CONFERENCE 2006

23 – 24 August 2006

Key Note Speakers

Professor Nyameko Barney Pityana / Professor Barney Pityana has been Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa since 2001. Professor Pityana has served on the Umalusi Council. He is a former Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission and is a past member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Uthingo Management Investments (Pty) Ltd, the Lottery operating company in South Africa, a Member of the first Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and serves on the boards of a number of development and education NGOs in South Africa. Professor Pityana was appointed as a Fellow of King’s College London in May 2002 and in December 2002 was awarded an Honourable Mention of the 2002 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education. Professor Pityana is the current chairperson of the African Council of Distance Education.Professor Pityana’s professional interests includes theology and law.

Sir John Daniel
President and Chief Executive Officer - Commonwealth of Learning / Sir John’s appointment to Commonwealth of Learning in 2004 was the culmination of an international academic career that included 17 years as a university president (Laurentian University and the UK Open University) and experience as Assistant Director-General at UNESCO.
The guiding passion of his career has been the expansion of educational opportunity through the intelligent use of technology. He finds that the Commonwealth of Learning, with its mission to help developing countries use new approaches to increase the scale, scope and quality of education, is the ideal platform for putting that principle into practice.
His non-executive appointments have included the presidencies of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, the Canadian Association for Distance Education and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. He also served as Vice-President of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
The best known of Sir John’s 220 publications is his book Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education (Kogan Page, 1996).
Prof. Som Naidu / Professor Som Naidu is Head of "Research and Evaluation services" in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Research Services (Information Division) at The University of Melbourne. As head of the section, Prof. Naidu coordinates the work of staff who provide a range of research and evaluation support services to academic staff and students of the University. Prof. Naidu's research and work experience includes the design, development and evaluation of computer and non-computer based learning materials for a wide range of contexts with particular focus on the application of learning strategies in them. He teaches courses, consults, and offers workshops on learning and instructional design, and e-learning both locally and internationally for educational as well as commercial organizations. In his current position at the University of Melbourne,Professor Naidu plays a pivotal role in the integration and evaluation of online learning and multimedia technology into teaching and learning at the University

Prof Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo / Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, is the Rector of the AfricanVirtualUniversity. Before joining the AfricanVirtualUniversity, he worked for the World Bank in WashingtonDC as a Senior Education Specialist, as the first Vice Chancellor of the Zimbabwe Open University and as the Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) where he was also responsible for the University College of Distance Education. During Prof. Dzvimbo's long career in education, he has taught at the RandAfrikaansUniversity, Johannesburg South Africa, at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Zimbabwe, among others. Mr Dzvimbo has long been involved in distance education, not only at the school where he has taught, but at the School of Basic Studies at AhmaduBelloUniversity, in Nigeria, as the head of a unit that produced distance teaching and open learning materials for primary school teachers in Zimbabwe - the famous ZINTEC project. Prof Dzvimbo has worked as a consultant for organisations such as UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID, AED, SIDA and the Netherlands Government in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He has also published extensively about educational reform, teacher education, distance education, educational management and higher education.
Prof. Mary Thorpe / Mary Thorpe is Professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Education Technology at the Open University of the UK. Since joining the University in 1975, she has evaluated course materials, tuition and learner support systems, and authored courses in Third World Studies, Adult Learning, and Open and Distance Learning.
She has also contributed to the development of courses for the professional accreditation of teachers in Higher Education.
As Director of the Institute between 1995 and 2003, she led a centre of international excellence for the teaching, research, evaluation and development of educational technology in the service of student learning. The Institute received a rating of 5 in the 1992 and 1996 Research Assessment Exercises
Current projects include research into interaction in OU courses, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and research funded by the NationalCollege for School Leadership, on online participation. She is also co-leader of a TLRP Thematic Seminar Series on Contexts, Communities and networks: Mobilising learners' resources and relationships in different domains'.
Mary also contributes to the University-wide project for development and review of Course Models,with particular responsibility for pedagogy and the student experience.
Ms Anne Foster
President
ODLAA / Before joining the University of Sydney in 2001, Anne was interim CEO of the Canadian Telelearning Network of Centres of Excellence. She had previously been Vice President of Learning for NextEd Ltd, an eLearning systems integrator and infrastructure company, with education partners worldwide targeting emerging Asian markets. As a consultant in her own company and as a Senior Manager for KPMG, she has worked internationally on over thirty research and development projects aimed at distance and internet based delivery of education and training in all sectors and in both developed and developing economies.Anne's career has spanned both management and academic roles in the Higher Education industry. She has worked with the Institute of Educational Technology at the UK Open University, RMIT and the University of South Australia where she was a member of the academic team that developed the world's first professional qualification in distance learning She is author of a core module in the University of Wisconsin ( Madison ) professional qualification in distance education. As Director of Educational Development at the University of New South Wales ' Australian Graduate School of Management, she designed the learning system and managed the start-up of its highly successful Executive MBA. Anne is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Master of Distance Education program of the Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of Maryland , University College , USA .

NADEOSA Conference, 23-24 August 2006

Preliminary Programme [June 2006]

DAY ONE: 23 August

Time / Plenary & Parallel Sessions
Venue 1 / Parallel Sessions
Venue 2 / Parallel Sessions
Venue 3
7:30 – 9:30 / REGISTRATION
[8:30 – 9:30 / NADEOSA AGM / NADEOSA AGM
9:30 – 10:00 / Opening & Welcome
NADEOSA President: Rachel Prinsloo
10:00 – 11:00 / KEYNOTE / Sir John Daniel
Topic: Exploring the role of ICTs in addressing educational needs: identifying the myths and the miracles
11:00 -11:30 / Tea
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:30 – 12:30 / Teaching & learning with the aid of technology through the establishment of a learning commons
S Gouws & M Botha / E-policy and higher education: from formulation to implementation
MJ Sesemane / They’ve got a ticket to ride - on the information superhighway! Towards a blended learning approach for ALL students at Unisa
A Goodwin Davey & L Steyn
The Ulwazi concept: virtual interactive & collaborative classrooms of the future
Ron Beyers / Regulating the use of ICTs in higher education: a case for and a case against
Ian Moll, Tessa Welch & E Ivala / The myth of panacea: a critical realist exploration of blended course delivery
Rob Gutteridge
12:30 – 13:30 / Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 / KEYNOTE / Mary Thorpe
Topic: ICTs for curriculum design, development and delivery
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14:30 – 15:30 / Mobile phone technology as an instrument for student support in Africa
Johan Hendrikz & Clint Raseale / It’s not about the tool; it’s about the Ideology
Alan Armory / ICT training at Unisa: the learners’ perspectives
Tshesane, Matlakalana and Vambe, Taonezvi
Podcasting in open higher distance learning, Why?
Nico Baird & Kallie de Beer / Technology: Tool rather than Vehicle
Fiona Bulman / Lessons learnt in using a LMS in 1st year Economics
K Thomas and JC Cronje
15:30 – 16:00 / Tea
PARALLEL SESSIONS
16:00 – 17:00 / ICT for Education and Training in the Commonwealth: Need for a realistic approach
Professor Mohan Menon / The myth of the technology fix. Why we just don’t know
Duan Van der Westhuizen / The potential impact of computer-aided assessment technology in higher education
Ernest Tshibalo
Are our institutions genuinely ready to support technology-supported learning?
Rita Kizito / ICTs: promises and/or song in ODL?
Lucy Kamanja / Using Corpus software to evaluate ODL materials: analysing student-centredness in ODL texts
Gerda Mischke
17:30 – 20:00 / COCKTAIL FUNCTION & DINNER & COURSEWARE AWARDS. Keynote Address by Professor Barney Pityana.

DAY TWO: 24 August

Time / Plenary & Parallel Sessions
Venue 1 / Parallel Sessions
Venue 2 / Parallel Sessions
Venue 3
8:30 – 9:30 / KEYNOTE / Prof Som Naidu
Topic: ICTs for curriculum design, development and delivery
PARALLEL SESSIONS
9:30 – 10:30 / Use of ICTs in School Empowerment programme in Kenya
James Sankale / Role of ICTs in the design, development & delivery of a service-learning module
Tina Van der Merwe / Facilitating success through online access, videoconferencing, CVC/CD based videos & satellite in Foundation Science course curricula
Hentie Wilson
Integrating ICTs in Schools: case of Uganda
TO Okumu / From digital divide to digital connection: Approaching ICTs for education in developing countries

Dr J F Heydenrych

/ ICTs: the role of Unisa Regional Service Centres in facilitation of learning
Michelle Frauendorf Kinsley Mokomane
10:30 – 11:00 / Tea
11:00 – 12:00 / KEYNOTE / Dr KP Dzvimbo
Topic: ICTs for education in Africa
12:00 – 13:00 / Lunch
PARALLEL SESSIONS
13:00 – 14:00 / Computers in schools: implementing for sustainability
HE Thomas & JC Cronje / Print-based learning might still be the answer to the digital divide
Dr Jean Mitchell, Dr Grif Smith, Dr Willa Louw, Ms Mpho Tshesane, Ms Mariana Petersen-Waughtal,Dr Christo du Preez / No middle ground, but many mansions: design of effective mixed mode courses
Deborah Pratt
ICTs in Education – Exploring the role of ICTs in general
Tladi, Lekopanye and Moses, Boingotlo / A constructivist critique of the NADEOSA Courseware criteria
Ian Moll / A research agenda for Open Educational Resources
Kim Tucker
14:00 – 15:00 / OSISA WORKSHOP / Anne Foster: Policy Issues: The role of professional associations and the impact of ICTs / OSISA / Providing practical science experiences at home for students studying science through distance education
Binaben Akoobhai
Panel Discussion
15:00 – 15:15 / Closure
Prof Som Naidu and Ms Anne Foster
15:15 – 15:30 / TEA
15:30 – 17:00 / OSISA Workshop

A half day post-conference workshop will be held by OSISA for DEASA and NADEOSA members. This will be by invitation, however, NADEOSA members are invited to submit names of representatives from their organisations whom they believe could usefully contribute to the workshop.

A  ICTs for Education in Africa: Innovation & Case Studies

A1  Different tools for Teaching & Learning
A2 Mobile Learning: portable ICTs
A3  ICTs in Africa case studies

B  Policy issues around ICTs for Education

B1  ICTs and the Digital Divide
B2  Learner support with ICTs
B3  Policy implementations of ICTs

C  ICTs in curriculum and programme development

C1  Blended approaches to enhance teaching & learning
C2  Computer-assisted Assessment
C3  ICTs to assist materials design & development