In keeping with the conference theme ‘transcending boundaries’ the HELTASA 2017 conference organising committee have decided to ‘walk the talk’ by including alternative presentation formats and modes of presentation. This year in addition to the Paper, Poster and Critical Dialogue sessions we introduce the ‘Flipped paper session’. Based on the idea of the flipped classroom, [...]
This special issue draws on the contributions from the 2016 International Consortium of Educational Development Conference (ICED) hosted for the very first time on African soil. The Higher Education Learning Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) co-hosted this conference in Cape Town, South Africa, with the theme,‘Ethics, care and quality in educational development’. The contributions [...]
Growing ourselves, growing the field of academic staff development When: 7 and 8 August 2017 Where: North Campus of NMMU (details to follow) This year the focus of the PD SIG is on growing ourselves and enhancing the field of academic staff development practice in South Africa. You are invited to join the HELTASA Professional Development [...]
Yusef Waghid – Distinguished Professor and Acting Dean, Stellenbosch University Nowadays, certainly at the institutions where we work, the concept of curriculum renewal has emerged as a potential panacea for the decontextual dilemma that confronts universities. By the decontextual dilemma I refer to curricula at universities that are unresponsive to societal contexts and [...]
2017 National Extended Curriculum Programmes/Foundation Colloquium 20th – 21st September 2017 @ Blue Waters Hotel, Durban, KZN “Pushing the Frontiers of Foundation Provisioning: Reflecting on more than a decade of practice –Are we winning?” DUT and MUT have partnered in the spirit of collaboration, a direction encouraged by DHET, to bring together public universities in [...]
