This presentation took place in Senegal in 2015. The presentation discusses e-learning, flexible learning and Open & Distance learning.

1. Elearning at UWC

2. Flexible
Learning &
Teaching
Flexible Learning &
Teaching Project
Elearning
at UWC
PhD
student’s
study

3. Definition of flexible L&T
0Flexible learning and teaching provision is an
inclusive, student-centred approach that
promotes flexibility in admissions criteria,
curriculum design, learning and teaching
modes and assessment, with appropriate
support systems and services, for the purpose of
developing graduate attributes throughout the
learning process so that students can make a
positive difference in the world.

4. White Paper for Post-School
Education and Training (2013)
0 principles of learner centeredness, lifelong learning,
flexibility of learning provision
0 advocates “higher education (HE) programmes & modes of
provision that are more responsive to learners’ needs &
realities, including those of working adults, which take into
account their varying life and work contexts, rather than
requiring them to attend daily classes at fixed times and
central venues
0 Recognises important role of educational technologies and
encourages the expansion of quality ‘online’ and ‘blended’
learning, including of open and distance learning
programmes.

5. Broad principles of flexibility
0 flexible curriculum design, including flexible forms of
assessment which take into account different learning
styles of students;
0 flexible admissions criteria, including mechanisms
such as the recognition of prior learning (RPL);
0 flexible delivery, including distance, online, on
campus a mix of these modes as well as accelerated
or decelerated options;
0 flexible support systems and services that cater for all
students, including those with disabilities.

6. Masters study: Time for studies: critical
temporalities of the professional development
of working students in South Africa
0 How are library staff constrained by time to complete a BLIS
degree? They have to overcome the complexity of being
situated between two inflexible and competing systems of
time.
0 Theories: concept of Critical Temporalities (understanding
time in society and time in organization); concept of
polychronicity, a term describing the “situation for work and
studies playing off one another in the life of a working
student”
0 Descriptive case study method Data was gathered from 10
participant interviews, background documents, participant
observation, surveys and questionnaires done by colleagues.
Data analysis included content analysis, discourse analysis
and narrative analysis.
0

7. iKamva (Sakai platform)
0 10 years old
0 Linked to graduate attribute of ICT skills for students
0 Annual colloquiums
0 Showcase success stories

8. Digital storytelling

9. Value of storytelling

10. Copyright compliance in
elearning environments

11. YouTube video of
presentation (14 mins)

12. Readiness to adopt e-learning:
pioneering a course in school
librarianship education
http://repository.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1
0566/526/ZinnE-learning2009.pdf?sequence=3

13. PhD study
0 Title: Developing an open distance learning university
library and information service delivery model for South
African universities
0 Objective: Examine ODL standards and guidelines for
university library & information services as well as ODL
service delivery models (SDMs) with the aim of devising a
South African ODL university library SDM
0 Conceptual Frame: Anderson’s model of online learning,
the theory of transactional distance, and the ACRL
standards and guidelines for distance library service will
be the lenses to view this study.
0 Approaches (qualitative & quantitative): questionnaire
& Delphi technique to gather the opinions of experts, here
the heads of university libraries offering hybrid services