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The language of digital learning : developing an e-learning approach for the elderly

Sheridan, Richard David (2010)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current learning methods that are typically used by special populations (an elderly subject group), and to explore their general level of effectiveness. The primary ...
The making of CourseMaker, a web-based shell program which can be set up by the teacher to run online courses

Pratt, Deirdre Denise (2003)

CourseMaker is an HTML shell program which was developed by the presenter as part of a Ph.D. research project on CAI/written composition, but which can be used for a variety of other instructional purposes. CourseMaker ...
Mechanism and software design: the use of a stochastic social-process algorithm in the design of a writing tutor program.

Pratt, Deirdre Denise (2005)

One of the chief difficulties in designing effective courseware for improving writing proficiency is that composing, like other forms of human communication, is a complex social process with little or no agreement as to ...
Mirage of us. A reflection on the role of the Web in widening access to references on Southern African arts, culture and heritage

Stewart, Graham Douglas James (Tydskrif Vir Letterkundehttp://www.letterkunde.up.ac.za/argief/47_2/10%20Stewart%2003.pdf, 2010)

This article outlines the broad aims of the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage (ESAACH) Project then goes on to consider the ESAACH Website as a networked resource that speaks to the project’s vision ...
Modelling social algorithms as design templates for educational software

Pratt, Deirdre Denise (2006)

Education involves a process of initiating learners into complex socio-cultural processes which may vary from culture to culture and even between institutions within the same culture, making it difficult to design versatile ...
Modelling writing as the basis for a writing tutor computer program.

Pratt, Deirdre Denise (2005)

To provide the basis for a writing tutor program which could be used in a variety of contexts, a modelling process was followed which produced both a practical and a theoretical model of writing. While the practical model ...
My journey of awareness : a study in memory, identity and creative development

Pretorius, Anna M. (2013-05-08)

I believe that the election in 1994 of the first democratic government in South Africa has presented a challenge to all South Africans in different ways. I believe that one of the principal challenges that the 1994 ...
Pornographic objectification of women through Kwaito lyrics

Blose, Maud (Routledgehttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10130950.2012.729384, 2012-10-29)

This Profile discusses the portrayal of women through Kwaito music and their frequent pornographic objectification in the popular township music genre. It considers the apparent shift away of Kwaito from its roots in the ...
A realist approach to writing: developing a theoretical model of written composition to inform a computer mediated learning application

Pratt, Deirdre Denise (2007)

An in-depth investigation into the nature of composing was carried out to provide the theoretical basis for a computer mediated learning application, an interactive writing tutor computer program which might be customised ...
The reconstitution of African women's spiritualities in the context of the Amazwi Abesifazane (Voices of Women) project in KwaZulu-Natal (1998-2005)

Stott, Bernice (2006)

This study will investigate and critically evaluate the reconstitution of African women’s spiritualities in the context of the Amazwi Abesifazane project. This project forms part of the endeavours of Create Africa South, ...
The relationship between script and image with specific reference to the work of Celeste van der Merwe, Willem Boshoff and Barbara Kruger

Van der Merwe, Celeste (2012-09-10)

The crux of my thesis is the study of the relationship of script and image in the work of contemporary arts. I chose to focus on three selected artists, i.e. myself, Celeste van der Merwe, a local South African male artist ...
The role of the social mechanism in social transformation: a critical realist approach to blended learning.

Pratt, Deirdre Denise; Gutteridge, Robert Geoffrey (2006)

This paper deals with ongoing curriculum development in mixed mode, focusing in particular on student response to blended learning at a multicultural University of Technology. This is currently the subject of a masters ...
A self study of curriculum design for the teaching and learning of isiZulu as an additional language in primary schools in the Maye babo! series

Soni, Sumithra Jaysooklal (2012-09-10)

This autoethnographic self study tracks my new ways of knowing in the various roles I play from daughter (passive recipient) to curriculum designer (active analytical composer). It retells my journey in the teaching ...
Teachers' understanding and implementation of the design process as it relates to teaching Technology Education in the intermediate and senior phases (Grades 4-9) in the General Education and Training Band in KwaZulu-Natal

De Jager, Maria Louisa Elizabeth (2012-09-03)

Outcomes-based education compelled South African teachers to make an important paradigm shift in education from a teacher-centred approach to a learner-centred approach. This paradigm shift in teaching and learning emphasised ...
Tribe of colours - reclaiming identity via the Web

Stewart, Graham Douglas James; McNulty, Niall (Faculty of Arts and Design and Art for Humanity, Durban University of Technology, 2010)

Now in the second year of its development, the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage (ESAACH) is both traditional encyclopaedia and hypertext web. Published volumes will emerge from the collaborative ...
The use of adapted teaching strategies in literacy by grade three educators in the northern KwaZulu-Natal region

Loopoo, Veena (2012-08-21)

The literacy levels in South African schools are alarmingly low. Educators are challenged in diverse classrooms with multicultural and multilingual learners as they are faced with the problems that these learners are ...

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