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An approach to the use of ICT in South African FET Colleges: Lessons from Experience Greig Krull and Maryla Bialobrzeska Saide North-South VET ICT Conference 25 – 27 September 2012

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Page 1: ICT Integration in South African FET Colleges

An approach to the use of ICT in South African FET Colleges:

Lessons from ExperienceGreig Krull and Maryla Bialobrzeska

SaideNorth-South VET ICT Conference

25 – 27 September 2012

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Agenda

• Context – Motivators and Constraints• ICT Integration in the FET Areas

– Teaching, Administration, Communication

• Challenges and Opportunities– Environment, Institution, People, Technology, Learning

• Case Study: Approach to ICT Integration• Discussion

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Overarching Context in FET

Improve quality of teaching and learning to promote student success rates and employability

Significantly increased participation

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Context

1. What is your biggest motivator to integrate ICT into your teaching and learning?

2. What is your biggest constraint to integrate ICT into your teaching and learning?

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Motivators and Constraints

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ICTs in FET Areas

CommunicationComm Tools, Social Networking

TeachingVLEs, eContent, eAssessment,

Support

AdministrationRecords, Finance, Management

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2011

© 2012 Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Note:• Number of web apps• Number of “non-

educational” apps• Number of Social

networking tools

What are your most useful tools…?

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Types of Challenges

Environment Institutions

People Technology

Teaching and Learning

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EnvironmentOpportunitiesPartnerships between institutions, governments and businesses

Articulate a vision and a strategic framework for harnessing the potential of ICTs to address a country's development challenges

Overarching and guiding national telecommunications and ICT policies, particularly as they relate to ICTs in education

ChallengesLimited Regional Infrastructure- Electricity- Access to resources

Sustainability

Policy Implementation

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People

OpportunitiesOn-going Professional Development Provide prior training when introducing ICTs

Implement incentive systems that promote the use of ICTs

Provide support and training for students

Develop internal capacity in the use of ICT

ChallengesICT Literacy of Lecturers and Readiness

Extra effort and time involved in using technologies

Lack of readiness of students to use technologiesShortage of people with technical skills to maintain ICT systems

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InstitutionsOpportunities• Vision and commitment of the leadership to

deploying ICTs • Included in strategic and operational plansRequire strong institutional policy and planning (resource allocation)

• National/Provincial approach for joint negotiations on the cost of bandwidth

• Identify ways in which ICTs will significantly enhance admin and teaching capabilities

Look for freely available resources e.g. Open Education Resources

Centralised units

ChallengesICT Integration

Major financial investment needed

High cost of acquiring and maintaining ICTs

High cost of content

Consistency across campuses and colleges

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TechnologyOpportunities• Create a technology plan (includes long term

budget)• Funds and staff available to sustain investments

in ICT infrastructure and support systems

• Piloting (test the efficacy of a technology)• Possible sharing or coordination of ICT usage

with other institutionsUnderstand total ownership cost (acquisition, installation, power supply, maintenance, replacement, training etc)Enhance bandwidth/connectivity through the acquisition of suitable infrastructure

ChallengesReliability and Security

System / Data Integration

Inexperience in procuring appropriate ICT

Limited bandwidth

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Teaching, Learning & Student Support

OpportunitiesAcademic and Technical Support

• Shift to resource based learning• Focus on good quality learning resources• College Collaboration Access to OER

Flexible delivery methods – online, blended, distance

ChallengesStudent Readiness

Constrained Staff Capacity

Quality Resources

Programme Delivery

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Case Study: Approach to Integration

Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA)Educational Technology Initiative (ETI)

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Project Objective“To support interventions in universities to make increasingly

effective use of educational technology to address some of the underlying educational challenges facing the higher educational

sector in Africa”

Strategic objectives :• Support initiatives that integrate educational technology• Promote collaborative knowledge creation and dissemination• Refine institutional systems to more directly support teaching• Research and report on educational technology activity

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Universities Involved

Catholic University of Mozambique

University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

Kenyatta University (Kenya)University of Jos

(Nigeria)

University of Education

Winneba (Ghana)

University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Makerere University (Uganda)

26 distinct sub-projects across 7 HEIs over 3 years

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Project Examples

POLICIES

ePortfolios

26 ProjectsICT and Elearning Policies, Online courses and interactive e-content, Portfolios, Digitisation of Exam Papers and Theses, Migration of courses from Blackboard to Moodle, Open Courseware, Video and Audio Lectures, Executive Information SystemsResearch Papers: Gender ICT Perceptions, Elearning Adoption

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OERs

Educational materials that have been designed for use in teaching and

learning that are openly licensed

Examples: curriculum maps, course materials,

textbooks, videos, podcasts

Find: International OER Repositories or search

Google (term + creative commons)

Some OER (depending on the license type) can be reworked or remixed to

your local context

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Lessons Learnt Rigid hierarchies hamper communication and implementation

Capacity development is a key need

Lack of institutionalised incentives to engage with ICT

Limited ICT infrastructure remains a major barrier

Encourage inter-institutional collaboration

Need for sound financial and pedagogical planning

See the results: www.oerafrica.org (follow links to the PHEA Educational Technology Initiative)

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ConclusionsBasic problems such as limited bandwidth and intermittent electricity place significant limitations on the potential for growth However…• Telecommunications capacity is growing rapidly• Expanding range of devices at reducing costs• Explosion of available quality content online that educators

and students can link to• Need governments and institutions to continue investment

and focus on ICT use in FET

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Summary

Capacity Building

Look to add

Value

Adaptive to

Change

Collaboration

Adequate Infrastructure

OpenEducationResources

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Thank you

[email protected]

greigk_za

Greig Krull

Discussion

www.saide.org.zawww.oerafrica.org

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

[email protected]

Maryla Bialobrzeska

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References• Johnson, L, Adams, S, and Cummins, M (2012). The NMC Horizon Report:

2012 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.• Isaacs, S and Hollow, D, (eds) 2012. The eLearning Africa 2012 Report,

ICWE: Germany.• Commonwealth of Learning. 2009. ICTs

for higher education: background paper from the Commonwealth of Learning. World Conference on Higher Education, Paris.

• OER Africa: http://www.oerafrica.org/ • PHEA ETI: http://

www.oerafrica.org/phea/PHEAETIProjectHome/tabid/170/Default.aspx• http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-learning-2011/ • Tony Mays, Saide, 2012, Recapping OER Presentation