eLearning and ICT integration in Teaching,

Learning and Assessment

Execution

Policy

SUMMIT OVERVIEW

Quality teaching

and learning

Policy Objectives/Targets• White Paper on e-Education:

– Every South African learner in the general and further education and training bands will be ICT capable (that is, use ICTs confidently and creatively to help develop the skills and knowledge they need to achieve personal goals and to be full participants in the global community) by 2013.

• Action Plan to 2014:– Goal 16: Improve the professionalism, teaching skills, subject knowledge

and computer literacy of teachers throughout their entire careers.– Goal 20: Increase access amongst learners to a wide range of media,

including computers, which enrich their education.– Goal 27: Improve the frequency and quality of the monitoring and

support services provided by district offices to schools, partly through better use of e-Education.

Vision Implementation

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WHAT• Adopt the newest technologies

WHY• Improve quality of teaching, learning and assessment• Increase pass rate• Foster learning anywhere and anytime as part of the development of knowledge

society• Allow every teacher, every learner to have instantaneous, real-time free access

to digital resources

HOW• Provide broadband and fast connectivity, • Provide subject- specific content, • Provide support and staff training • Determine the educational purpose that technology /ICT infrastructure will

serve.

Definitionale-Learning:• a method of teaching and learning• comprises instructions delivered through all

electronic media• includes internet, intranets, extranets,

satellites broadcasts, audio/video tapes, interactive TV and CD-ROMs (Govindasamy, 2002).

Objectives• Systematic deployment of ICT infrastructure across the

province• Optimization of the already existing ICT infrastructure• Enhanced digital literacy amongst educators in the

province• Access to relevant and more systematic education

content• Sustained and systematic funding models for ICT

initiatives• Universal Access to quality broadband coverage

Important Design lessons• Rich theoretical paradigms to explain critical

success factors related to ICT interventions, • Planned Behaviour, Motivational, Classical

conditioning• Qualitative / grounded theory/ethnographic

approaches• Variety of experiences and backgrounds

Programming and rollout lessons• Context• Infrastructure• Institutional capacity• Economies of scale

• Aggregation• Teaching strategies• Digital assets

Value to education

eLearning in a nutshell • Teacher & ICTs: Basic Skills

The teacher uses the computer for administrative purposes, e.g. capturing marks, setting tests and examination papers, etc.

eLearning in a nutshell cont... • Teacher & ICTs: Moderate Skills

The teacher uses ICTs to obtain information, develop presentations and present learning material in class.

eLearning in a nutshell cont... • Teacher & ICTs: Moderate Skills

The teacher uses ICTs to facilitate learning and assessment by using online or computer-based curriculum software.

eLearning in a nutshell cont... • Teacher & ICTs: Advanced Skills

The teacher developslearning objects forclass or individualuse.

eLearning in a nutshell cont... • Learners & ICTs

Learners use ICTs to learn and assess themselves independent from the school.

E-Management• SMTs & School Management Systems

Principals and their SMTs use ICTs to manage school data which they use take important strategic decisions and to communicate with learners, parents and stakeholders.

E-Management• SMTs & School Management Systems

Key Performance Areas• Teacher training and Professional development on

integration of ICT in teaching, learning and assessment • Development and/or acquisitioning of Curriculum

software.• Provisioning of Curriculum resources to schools

through the Curriculum website: www.eccurriculum.co.za

• Provisioning of ICT/e-Learning resources to schools: – ICT related infrastructure (Computers, tablets, etc.)– Connectivity

Teacher Training: 5 Year Plan

ICT Infrastructure: 5 Year Plan

ICT Partnership Projects: 2014Project Purpose/To provide:- No. of schools DoE role ASIDI 54 Trolley with Laptops and

server and network accessories

Libode: 38Lusikisiki: 5Mthatha: 6Mt Frere: 5

• Technical support• Training of teachers on

management & use equipment

• Monitoring and support

ICT4RED 26 Tablets Cofimvaba Project: Tablets for learners and teachers in 26 schools in the Nciba circuit.

Monitoring and supportSustaining the project after March 2015.

MathMXit (NMMU):

Mathematics learning and competition: 3000 learners (Gr 9 and 11) in 2013.

Learners (Gr 9 and 11 Mathematics & NS / Physics) in 2014.

Training of teachers on management & use equipmentMonitoring and support

ICT Partnership Projects: 2014 cont...Project Purpose/To provide:- No. of schools DoE role Proof of Concept (POC)

To provide infrastructure to implement ICT integration in Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

Lady Frere: 188 schools (Laptop, data projector, White Board, Connectivity)

Technical supportTraining of teachers on management & use equipmentMonitoring and support

Vodacom - ICASA project

Connectivity accessories and mobile trolleys with 27Laptops/ Tablets; a printer; a data projector & interactive whiteboard

537 schools the next 2 years

Technical supportTraining of teachers on management & use equipmentMonitoring and support

Vodacom 1 Server; 30 Laptops; 2 printers; a data projector & screen

7 Computer labs to districts

Technical supportTraining of teachers on management & use equipmentMonitoring and support

I teacher laptop 92 eLearning solutions (laptop + projector)

ICT Partnership Projects: 2014 cont...Project Purpose/To provide:- No. of schools DoE role Telkom

To provide infrastructure to implement ICT integration in Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

88 schools to receive laptop trolleys (Lady Frere and Queenstown areas)

Technical supportTraining of teachers on management & use equipmentMonitoring and support

Dimension Data 1 Trolley with a desktop, data project and FET subjects content

East London- 6 schoolsGrahamstown – 1KWT – 1 school

Monitoring and support.

ReMagine Tablets Tablets with curriculum content to learners in 250 schools in the Eastern Cape

Monitoring and supportSustaining the project after 3 years.