This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa. With original research from Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, this book provides in-depth scientific scholarship focused on the dynamic multimodal learning environments in the region. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has largely had to adjust to remote
learning. Hence, the editors and contributors pull together important research on digital pedagogies and assessment to demonstrate how technology can be effectively employed for multimodal learning environments within the Southern African context. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of digital education, multimodal learning and education within Southern Africa and beyond.
Chapter 1: Contextualising multimodal learning environments in Southern
Africa.
Chapter 2: Cultivating locally transformative digital pedagogies:
The need for formative-intervention research.
Chapter 3: Thats so hot right
now: Generation Zs technological use during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Chapter
4: Alternative Multimodal Composition Assessments in Academic Literacy
Modules.
Chapter 5: Rethinking assessment and feedback in a digital age in
crises: Who is assessed? By whom? For what purpose?.
Chapter 6: Developing a
Connective Student Support Framework for a resource constrained ODL
institution in Mauritius.
Chapter 7: Professionalising Socialisation for
Pragmatic e-Curriculum to the Rescue of South African Universities.
Chapter
8: Studying with a Chatbot: Students Perceptions and Performance at the
Institute of Adult Education in Tanzania.
Chapter 9: Teacher perspectives on
blended learning in a changing educational landscape.
Chapter 10: A
Systematic Review of Digital Storytelling as Educational Tool for Teaching
and Learning in Southern Africa.
Chapter 11: Technology-enhanced Teacher
Professional Development: The Experience of a Digital EdTech Start-up in
Malawi.
Jako Olivier is Professor in Multimodal Learning and current UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources at the North-West University, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Education.
Avinash Oojorah is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Open and Distance learning Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius. He holds a PhD in Digitization of Curriculum and has been heading major educational technologies projects at national levels.
Waaiza Udhin is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Open and Distance learning Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius. She holds a PhD in Learning with Technology and also coordinates major national educational technologies projects.
