The 5th Annual T&L Conference 2022 (Blended - Virtual & F2F)

Theme: Digital Transformation in Higher Education
Date: 27-29 September 2022
Venue: Virtual on 3D Platform and F2F at Emerald Casino Hotel and Resort, Vanderbijlpark
Pre-workshop facilitators: HELTASA Digital Learning and Teaching Project Team - Dr Greig Krull, Wits; Prof Daniela Gachago, UCT; Dr Nicola Pallitt, Rhodes; Prof Simone Titus, UWC; and Ms Shanali Govender, UCT on “Digital Transformation @NWU: Conversations around where we are now and where we are going?”
Guest speaker: Mr Andile Swartbooi, Digital Strategy Officer, NWU on “From Digitisation, Digitalisation to Digital Transformation”.
Keynote: Dr Gerhard du Plessis, Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Director: Centralised Teaching and Learning Functions (CTLF), NWU on “Towards Digital Transformation”.

The 4th Annual T&L Conference 2021 (Blended - Virtual & F2F)

Theme: Transformative pedagogies towards transformation in Higher Education
Date: 19-21 October 2021
Venue: Virtual on MS Teams and F2F on each campus
Keynote 1: Prof. Paul Prinsloo, Research Professor in Open Distance Learning (University of South Africa) on “Who owns the future? Re-considering the narratives informing ‘transforming pedagogy’ in higher education”.
Keynote 2: Ms Gloria Castrillón, Director: Centre for Academic Planning and Quality Promotion (University of Johannesburg) & Dr Kirti Menon, Senior Director of the Division for Academic Planning, Quality Promotion and Academic Staff
Development (University of Johannesburg) on “Quality Assuring the Unknown”.

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The 2nd Annual T&L Conference 2019

Theme: Teaching and learning excellence in an age of uncertainty
Date: 28–30 May 2019
Venue: The Roots, Potchefstroom
Pre-workshop presenters: Dr Jacqui De Matos-Ala, Senior Lecturer (University of the Witwatersrand) on “The challenge and potential of large class teaching” and Dr Melanie Skead, Director: Centre for Teaching and Learning (Stellenbosch University) on "(Curriculum) Transformation in an age of pressure and possibility".
Keynote 1: Prof. Louis C. H. Fourie, Deputy Vice Chancellor: Knowledge and Information Technology Services (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) on “The fourth industrial revolution and the age of uncertainty”.
Keynote 2: Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak, Chairperson: Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) on “Teaching and learning excellence in an age of uncertainty”.

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The 1st Annual T&L Conference 2018

Theme: Embracing institutional change: responsiveness, collaboration and success
Date: 29–31 May 2018
Venue: The Roots, Potchefstroom
Pre-workshop presenter: Ms Brenda Mallinson, OER Africa, Learning Technologies and OER Consultant on “Academic Professional Development in a Digital Age: Exploring Aspects of Digital Fluency for Blended Teaching and Learning”
Keynote 1: Dr Wayne Mackintosh, Founding Director of the OER Foundation and the UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning and ICDE Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic and the Foundation on “The OERu: From Vision to Reality”.
Keynote 2: Dr Tony Mays, Manager: Unit for Distance Education University of Pretoria (Groenkloof) on “Curriculum Transformation: Taking Time to Design”.
Keynote 3: Prof Paul Prinsloo, Research Professor in Open Distance Learning (ODL), College of Economic and Management Sciences, Unisa on “Faculty as Quantified, Measured and Tried: The Lure of the Red Shoes”.

View the programme here.