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HELTASA Archive: Past Events and Resources
FYE Workstream 2023 Webinar Series Mapping First-year Experience Initiatives/ Programmes And Good Practices: Towards Developing A National Framework
The Siyaphumelela First-Year Experience (FYE) Workstream will be hosting its annual Webinar Series. This year, the focus is on the FYE Initiatives/ Programmes offered at the participating Siyaphumelela Project Institutions and the sharing of examples of good practice. FYE Initiatives/ Programmes are an important vehicle for student transition, success, and experience.
Proposed experiential learning flipped-classroom flow planner – guides the academic through each part of a learning unit and provides practical suggestions on the digital learning, teaching.
Webinar – Programme Development Project Designing Blended Learning Interactive Study Guide
To design interactive study guides and align blended learning with experiential learning in a blended learning environment navigating between online and face-to-face classroom sessions.
Proposed experiential learning flipped-classroom flow planner – guides the academic through each part of a learning unit and provides practical suggestions on the digital learning, teaching.
Webinar – Heltasa / National University Teaching Awards
The purpose of this second HELTASA/NUTA webinar for 2023 is to present the opportunity for potential participants or representatives of respective institutions to engage in discussions on portfolio development for the NUTA 2024. The webinar will also focus on imperatives and sharing practices on portfolio development.
Digital Dialogue Series Invitation: Humanising Pedagogies in Times of Digital Transformation
Join the HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Team for our final Digital Dialogue for 2023 on Tuesday 17 October 12.00-13.30. It will be thought-provoking dialogue as we explore the intersection of humanising pedagogies and digital transformation within the context of Sub- Saharan African higher education.
Re-imagining Academic Leadership in the ‘Post’ Colonial South African Universities Symposium 27 September 2023
The HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team will be hosting the second digital dialogue of 2023 on Wednesday 24th May 12:00 – 13:30. We would like to continue our conversation started during the first dialogue on how to respond to AI in higher education. This time we would like to focus on how institutions are responding or planning to respond.
Save the date: HELTASA Student Learning Project Team: Coffee Conversation
Join the HELTASA project teams throughout the academic year as you engage in opportunities that will bring you together from different pathways at the national event from 23 to 27 October 2023.
Postgraduate Education Specialist (PAS PL6)
The position of Postgraduate Education Specialist has been created to support academic staff across the university in enhancing postgraduate students’ experience. The post is located in the Centre for Learning, Teaching, and Development.
Webinar – Tools for understanding teaching
HELTASA warmly invites you to the next live webinar by the PUAT project. UKZN is actively participating with all four colleges: Humanities, Agriculture, Engineering & Science, Health Sciences, and Law and Management Studies, as a partner of the project in Multiple Disciplines to Address SDGs.
HELTASA / National University Teaching Awards (NUTA) Presentation
The HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team will be hosting the second digital dialogue of 2023 on Wednesday 24th May 12:00 – 13:30. We would like to continue our conversation started during the first dialogue on how to respond to AI in higher education. This time we would like to focus on how institutions are responding or planning to respond.
Key Takeaways: How are institutions responding to AI?
On 24 May 2023, the HELTASA Digital Teaching and Learning Team hosted their second Digital Dialogue entitled “How are institutions responding to AI?”. The webinar recording and some slides from the session are available. This was a follow up session to our earlier Digital Dialogue “How do we navigate the AI hype together?” held on 15 March 2023.
Digital Dialogue Series Invitation: Dismantling Buzzwords in Educational Technology
The HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team will be hosting the third digital dialogue in 2023 on Thursday the 27th of July from 12:00 – 13:30. We would like to move our conversation to a slightly different topic this time: ‘Dismantling Buzzwords in EdTech’.
Save the date: Celebrations of Scholarship: Connecting the lights
Join the HELTASA project teams throughout the academic year as you engage in opportunities that will bring you together from different pathways at the national event from 23 to 27 October 2023.
Invitation for applications: Council on Higher Education
The CHE invites applications from interested and suitably qualified candidates.
Associate Editor vacancy: Transformation in Higher Education Journal
The Transformation in Higher Education Journal is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve an initial five-year term as the Associate Editor of its peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
Digital Dialogue Series Invitation: How are institutions responding to AI?
The HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team will be hosting the second digital dialogue of 2023 on Wednesday 24th May 12:00 – 13:30. We would like to continue our conversation started during the first dialogue on how to respond to AI in higher education. This time we would like to focus on how institutions are responding or planning to respond.
Key Takeaways: How do we navigate the AI hype together?
The HELTASA Digital Teaching and Learning Team hosted their first Digital Dialogue for 2023 on 15 March entitled “How do we navigate the AI hype together?”. Since November 2022, there have been many discussions and resources published about ChatGPT and the potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in higher education.
Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching Invitation
If you are an educator looking to stay ahead of the curve and provide your students with the latest in contemporary teaching approaches, then you won’t want to miss out on our newly updated free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) presented by CAULLT. We are excited to launch eight new modules, with a total of 24 modules to choose from. The newly updated version sees all modules updated for 2023.
Digital Dialogue Series Invitation: How do we navigate the AI hype together?
The HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team will be hosting the first digital dialogue in 2023 on Wednesday 15 March 12:00 – 13:30. We invite you to participate in an informal, facilitated cross-institutional dialogue where we explore how to navigate the AI/Chat GPT hype together as a community of practice.
Book Launch: Critical Reflections on Professional Learning during Covid-19: Context, Practice and Change
The first HELTASA book was launched by the Professional Learning Project Team. This book is a collection of written reflections on South African academics’ professional learning during Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) and how they navigated the rethinking and adaptation of teaching, learning and assessment.
Key Takeaways: Digital Assessment Opportunities and Challenges
The HELTASA Digital Teaching and Learning Team hosted their third and final Digital Dialogue for 2022 on 28 September entitled “How does a digital world pose opportunities and challenges around assessment and academic integrity?”. Read the key takeaways from the first and second Digital Dialogues.

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